1 /* Convenience declarations when working with <signal.h>.
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18 #ifndef _GL_SIG_HANDLER_H
19 #define _GL_SIG_HANDLER_H
23 /* Convenience type when working with signal handlers. */
24 typedef void (*sa_handler_t) (int);
26 /* Return the handler of a signal, as a sa_handler_t value regardless
27 of its true type. The resulting function can be compared to
28 special values like SIG_IGN but it is not portable to call it. */
29 static inline sa_handler_t
30 get_handler (struct sigaction const *a)
33 /* POSIX says that special values like SIG_IGN can only occur when
34 action.sa_flags does not contain SA_SIGINFO. But in Linux 2.4,
35 for example, sa_sigaction and sa_handler are aliases and a signal
36 is ignored if sa_sigaction (after casting) equals SIG_IGN. So
37 use (and cast) sa_sigaction in that case. */
38 if (a->sa_flags & SA_SIGINFO)
39 return (sa_handler_t) a->sa_sigaction;
44 #endif /* _GL_SIG_HANDLER_H */