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Re: signal/bsd_signal

To: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
Subject: Re: signal/bsd_signal
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 06 Sep 2000 14:24:19 -0700
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <200009062112.e86LCYB27609@neuralgia.linnaean.org>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> I have to stretch to contemplate ways a program could manage to care
> one way or the other.

If the mask is returned and the bit is not set something might be
handled differently than expected.  I don't know of a case, I'm just
looking throught the specs.  If some piece in the test suite is
testing this it will complain.  Now it won't anymore.

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