Ok, it's been a while since I wrote lots of signal code, but how exactly would
you query the current signal handler without changing it? sigaction/signal
only return the previous handler after you change it which is definitly not
what I'd want a library routine doing (race conditions, etc).

James

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>On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:46:04AM -0400, James Chacon wrote:
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>> Ok, this is gonna require some thinking to fix the behavior.
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>You left out one possible option: block signals in getpass only if
>they are default.  Let su do its own intercept, and getpass can then
>assume that if the signals are being handled, it does not have to do
>so itself.  Su will have to include both a signal handler and a term
>setting restore, but that seems like a reasonable expectation.
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