/* Emergency actions in case of a fatal signal.
- Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2003.
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- any later version.
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#ifdef __cplusplus
terminates the process, like removing a temporary file or killing a
subprocess that may be stuck waiting for a device, pipe or network input.
Such signals are SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGPIPE, SIGTERM, and possibly others.
- The limitation of this facility is that it cannot work for SIGKILL. */
+ The limitation of this facility is that it cannot work for SIGKILL.
+
+ Signals with a SIG_IGN handler are considered to be non-fatal. The
+ functions in this file assume that when a SIG_IGN handler is installed
+ for a signal, it was installed before any functions in this file were
+ called and it stays so for the whole lifetime of the process. */
/* Register a cleanup function to be executed when a catchable fatal signal
occurs.