Re: [failure] XEmacs 21.0-b40 on FreeBSD 2.2.6
On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 05:54:23PM -0700, Martin Buchholz wrote:
I can't think of any reason not to catch the same signals in
batch
mode as in `regular' mode. The standard lisp facilities should be
available to folks trying to write XEmacs `scripts'.
But signal handling is always tricky, so we should be careful.
Signal handling is a fragile mix of system and libc state. If the
system thinks that a signal (say SIGFPE) isn't handled while the libc
thinks it is (after starting a dumped executable that was handling it)
I don't really know what will happen.
OG.