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1.1     ! root        1: .TH SIGNAL 3F "18 July 1983"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: signal \- change the action for a signal
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B integer function signal(signum, proc, flag)
        !             7: .br
        !             8: .B integer signum, flag
        !             9: .br
        !            10: .B external proc
        !            11: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            12: When a process incurs a signal (see
        !            13: .IR signal (3C))
        !            14: the default action
        !            15: is usually to clean up and abort.
        !            16: The user may choose to write an alternative signal handling routine.
        !            17: A call to
        !            18: .I signal
        !            19: is the way this alternate action is specified to the system.
        !            20: .PP
        !            21: .I Signum
        !            22: is the signal number (see
        !            23: .IR signal (3C)).
        !            24: If
        !            25: .I flag
        !            26: is negative, then
        !            27: .I proc
        !            28: must be the name of the user signal handling routine.
        !            29: If
        !            30: .I flag
        !            31: is zero or positive, then
        !            32: .I proc
        !            33: is ignored and the value of
        !            34: .I flag
        !            35: is passed to the system as the signal action definition.
        !            36: In particular, this is how previously saved signal actions can be restored.
        !            37: Two possible values for
        !            38: .I flag
        !            39: have specific meanings:
        !            40: 0 means "use the default action" (See NOTES below),
        !            41: 1 means "ignore this signal".
        !            42: .PP
        !            43: A positive returned value is the previous action definition.
        !            44: A value greater than 1 is the address of a routine that
        !            45: was to have been called on occurrence of the given signal.
        !            46: The returned value can be used in subsequent calls to
        !            47: .I signal
        !            48: in order to restore a previous action definition.
        !            49: A negative returned value is the negation of a system error code.
        !            50: (See
        !            51: .IR perror (3F))
        !            52: .SH FILES
        !            53: .ie \nM /usr/ucb/lib/libU77.a
        !            54: .el /usr/lib/libU77.a
        !            55: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            56: signal(3C), kill(3F), kill(1)
        !            57: .SH NOTES
        !            58: .B f77
        !            59: arranges to trap certain signals when a process is started.
        !            60: The only way to restore the default
        !            61: .B f77
        !            62: action is to save the returned
        !            63: value from the first call to
        !            64: .I signal.
        !            65: .PP
        !            66: If the user signal handler is called, it will be passed the signal number
        !            67: as an integer argument.

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