From: jazz@softway.com (Jason Zions) Subject: Re: Sergey's latest cygwin.dll and pdksh 18 Jun 1997 07:21:13 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33A7DEF9.14C0.cygnus.gnu-win32@softway.com> References: <199706171340.IAA15033@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> Reply-To: jazz@softway.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Original-To: Jordan Henderson Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".