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From:
Ilya Zakharevich
Date:
September 29, 1999 11:02
Subject:
Re: deprecating SIGDIE
Message ID:
199909291802.OAA14173@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
Tom Christiansen writes:
> 
> >I see it as a handler that is invoked when something calls die(). 
> 
> That's not what it was meant to be for, and its current use is
> completely broken because of strange-action-at-a-distance-effects.
> Larry has said that this is wrong, and that the current misuse should
> be deprecated or disabled.  

I would rather hear this directly from Larry than see this hearsay.

Ilya

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