From: jazz AT softway DOT com (Jason Zions)
Subject: Re: Sergey's latest cygwin.dll and pdksh
18 Jun 1997 07:21:13 -0700
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Some versions of Unix actually queue signals (and deliver the correct
number of them); others do not. The POSIX standards do not mandate
signal queuing. A portable POSIX application should not depend on signal
queuing; a dependence on that behavior necessarily limits the
portability of the app.

Jason


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