[Xastir-dev] Re: Use of SIGUSR1

[Curt Mills]

On Sun, 9 May 2004, Henk de Groot wrote:

> Does anybody know why the code catches the SIGUSR1 signal (in main.c)? I
> cannot find where this signal is raised. The code was added by KB4AMA.
>
> The use of SIGUSR1 causes problems on my old RedHat 5.2 Linux system, the
> old pthread library uses SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 (yeah, later versions fixed
> this) to do its job and catching it for another purpose crashes the system
> big-time. I cannot see what code triggers it and if I can safely remove
> this signal handler (or modify it to use another signal). Any ideas? If it
> has no purpose, can it be removed.

As I recall, he was using that signal to cause Xastir to create a
snapshot.  I'd have to go looking in the code again to see if that
bit of code got completed.

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