Bug: Readline getting stuck on Linux and Solaris

[Michael Hudson]

Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> do the IRIX manpages say anything scary about signal/sigaction
> interaction?

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/man/sgi_irix?sigaction+2

  The POSIX signal routines (sigaction(2), sigpending(2),
  sigprocmask(2), sigsuspend(2), sigsetjmp(3)), and the 4.3BSD signal
  routines (sigvec(3B), signal(3B), sigblock(3B), sigpause(3B),
  sigsetmask(3B)) must NEVER be used with signal(2) or sigset(2).

That'd be "yes", then.

But I've just d/l-ed readline and it's signal handler is (predictably)
straight out of Preprocessor Hell, so I can't tell what's going on at
all :-(.

M.

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