signal/bsd_signal

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Wed Sep 6 14:24:00 GMT 2000


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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