OpenSSH 2.4.0 patch call..

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Kevin Steves wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Markus Friedl wrote:
> : mysignal can fallback to signal if sigaction is not available.
> : with mysignal() we don't need to reinstall signalhandlers.
> : 
> : comments?
> 
> i'm rather far away from my stevens apue.
> 
> with the patch below hp-ux 11.11 is working with protocol 2 (i did not
> include the patch for signal() -> mysignal()).
> 
> why is scp using sigaction() with SA_RESTART flags in the portable
> version?  it seems EINTR is handled in atomicio() without that.
> 
Kinda wondering that myself, but  I've been too busy to dig up in the
portable tree when that change occured.

BTW.  For the portable version sigaction will almost always be accessable.
Either via standard sigaction() interface or via sigvec() (Thanks to the
fact NeXT lacks sigaction()).

- Ben