Missing a signal and pausing forever

[jmc at root44.UUCP]

Personally I think that signals, along with file security are the two most
mis-designed features of UNIX.  In addition to missing a signal as described,
you can get botches due to a second signal arriving, and not getting caught,
before you have reset the catch routine.  Then you can have them arriving
in some other order from that in which they were sent because of the
numerical ordering.  Then you get botches like 'interrupted system call' to
worry about on your I/O.

			John Collins
			Root Computers Ltd
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