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24 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
27 static const char rcsid
[] _U_
=
28 "@(#) Header: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/setsignal.c,v 1.11 2003/11/16 09:36:42 guy Exp (LBL)";
30 __RCSID("$NetBSD: tcpdump2rcsid.ex,v 1.1 2001/06/25 20:09:58 itojun Exp $");
38 #include <tcpdump-stdinc.h>
45 #ifdef HAVE_OS_PROTO_H
49 #include "setsignal.h"
52 * An OS-independent signal() with, whenever possible, partial BSD
53 * semantics, i.e. the signal handler is restored following service
54 * of the signal, but system calls are *not* restarted, so that if
55 * "pcap_breakloop()" is called in a signal handler in a live capture,
56 * the read/recvfrom/whatever in the live capture doesn't get restarted,
57 * it returns -1 and sets "errno" to EINTR, so we can break out of the
60 * We use "sigaction()" if available. We don't specify that the signal
61 * should restart system calls, so that should always do what we want.
63 * Otherwise, if "sigset()" is available, it probably has BSD semantics
64 * while "signal()" has traditional semantics, so we use "sigset()"; it
65 * might cause system calls to be restarted for the signal, however.
66 * I don't know whether, in any systems where it did cause system calls to
67 * be restarted, there was a way to ask it not to do so; there may no
68 * longer be any interesting systems without "sigaction()", however,
69 * and, if there are, they might have "sigvec()" with SV_INTERRUPT
70 * (which I think first appeared in 4.3BSD).
72 * Otherwise, we use "signal()" - which means we might get traditional
73 * semantics, wherein system calls don't get restarted *but* the
74 * signal handler is reset to SIG_DFL and the signal is not blocked,
75 * so that a subsequent signal would kill the process immediately.
77 * Did I mention that signals suck? At least in POSIX-compliant systems
78 * they suck far less, as those systems have "sigaction()".
81 (*setsignal (int sig
, RETSIGTYPE (*func
)(int)))(int)
84 struct sigaction old
, new;
86 memset(&new, 0, sizeof(new));
87 new.sa_handler
= func
;
88 if (sigaction(sig
, &new, &old
) < 0)
90 return (old
.sa_handler
);
94 return (sigset(sig
, func
));
96 return (signal(sig
, func
));