Re: DPKG not compiling due to differences between Alpha and Intel...

Bruce Perens (bruce@pixar.com)
Mon, 29 Jan 96 11:44 PST

> Supposing I want to set the action entirely myself, without using any
> of the previous state (eg, by calling sigaction first to get the
> current state and then modifying it). How do I fill in the sigaction
> struct ?

memset((void *),&sigaction_struct, '\0', sizeof(sigaction_struct));

Then initialize the fields you use.

The system call had better do something sensible if unused or local fields
in its data structure are 0.

Thanks

Bruce

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