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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> Sigsetjmp will save and restore the signal mask ONLY if its second
> argument is nonzero. The libc code is correct.

Oh, I didn't notice that part.

> The test program works properly under 2.4 .

What do you mean "properly"? If you're not saving/restoring the sigmasks,
then the 2.6.x behaviour is the right one and your program is buggy.

What's your point?

		Linus