From: Ed Carp (erc@unislc.uucp)
Date: 01/27/93


From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: uucico hangs
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:55:05 GMT

Bob Smith (bob@snuffy.penfield.ny.us) wrote:

: I had a similar problem... It took a little tweaking on the conf.h
: file, but basically I took this approach --- I went ahead and ran the
: Configure script (against all better advice!) and then hand edited the
: resulting conf.h to bring in back to normal (expr munges it up pretty good!!)
: and then I set the definition of HAVE_SIGSETJMP, HAVE_SIGACTION,
: HAVE_SIGPROCMASK, and HAVE_SIGBLOCK to 0 ... uucico runs as expected now...
: I'm not sure if it's only one of those functions that causes the problem,
: or a combination of any 2 or 3 of them, all I know is that's how I got
: mine to work...

On some version of the shared library, sigaction and friends were broken.
Setting HAVE_SIGACTION to 0 (or getting taylor-uucp 1.04 from mailpak-1.4)
would solve the problem.

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Ed Carp                 erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com       801/538-0177

"It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering." -- Buddha