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Chapter 22. Signals: Advanced Features > Earlier Signal APIs (System V and BSD)
22.13. Earlier Signal APIs (System V and BSD)
Our discussion of signals has focused on the POSIX signal API. We now briefly look at the historical APIs provided by System V and BSD. Although all new applications should use the POSIX API, we may encounter these obsolete APIs when porting (usually older) applications from other UNIX implementations. Because Linux (like many other UNIX implementations) provides System V and BSD compatibility APIs, often all that is required to port programs using these older APIs is to recompile them on Linux.
22.13.1.
22.13.1.1. The System V signal API
As noted earlier, one important difference in the System V signal API is that when a handler is established with signal(), we get the older, unreliable signal semantics. This means that the signal is not added to the process signal mask, the disposition of the signal is reset to the default when the handler is called, and system calls are not automatically restarted.
