Re: pthread library related

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On May 30,  9:32pm, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: pthread library related

| On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 03:28:09PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > On May 30,  8:29pm, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
| > -- Subject: Re: pthread library related
| > 
| > | Do we really need this? Why is it a function pointer?
| > 
| > It is the same as signal.
| 
| OK. Why is "signal" a function pointer?

It is not a function pointer; it is a function that takes as an argument
the new signal handler (function pointer) returns a function
pointer (the old signal handler function)

christos