FreeBSD-5.1 problem identified

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Wed, 06, Aug 2003, edscott wilson garcia wrote:

> The problem might also affect other xfce4 elements besides xffm. I
> figured out the problem with FreeBSD-5.1 (which *might* be affecting
> xfce4-panel, xfce4-session, xfdesktop and xfwm as well). Apparently the
> sigaction() function does not work to change the default action of
> SIGTERM (and maybe other signals), but the simplified version signal()
> works fine. So that by using (in configure.ac):
> 
> AC_CHECK_FUNCS([sigaction])
> AC_CHECK_FUNCS([signal])
> 
> and  
> 
> putting in code like:
> #ifdef HAVE_SIGNAL
>     signal(SIGUSR1, TuboSemaforo);
> #else
>     sigaction(SIGUSR1,&act,NULL);
> #endif
> xffm with all it's components is now working like a charm in
> FreeBSD-5.1.
> 

This is rather useless. Every plattform that has sigaction() has
signal(), and IMHO its more a FreeBSD bug.

> The other files that also use sigaction() are xfce4-panel/main.c,
> xfce4-session/main.c, xfdesktop/main.c and xfwm4/main.c.
> 
> If anybody has a powerful reason why I should not fix them as well, I
> will go ahead and do so in a few hours.

No time to look into this in detail currently. If it serves as a
workaround for FreeBSD, then "fix" it now, and I'll see to it later
for a real solution, or maybe someone knows whats the right thing
here?

> regards
> Edscott

Benedikt

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