Re: Why no SIGINFO?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> +    (void)signal(SIGINFO, progress);
> I'm not sure if others will agree, but I think that sigaction(2) is
> prefered to select(3) nowadays.

I assume you meant signal(3), not select(3); preferring sigaction to
select is a bit like preferring sqrt to strlen.  That said:

My understanding is probably incomplete, but I'd say that this is only
partially true.  sigaction() is the more general of the two - it offers
facilities signal() doesn't - but, where the capabilities of signal()
are sufficient to the task, I see no reason to avoid it.

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