Re: [leafnode-list] Ever wanted to change the verbosity level of a running

[Joerg Dietrich <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 11:01:13PM +0200, Cornelius Krasel wrote:
> [to change verbosity of fetchnews on the fly]
[handler snipped]
 
> How does the process know where to continue after verbose has been
> increased or decreased? I was under the impression that was what the
> longjmp() usually is for...

Isn't the idea of a re-entrant signal handler that the stack is 
saved, the handler is called, the programm continues at the saved 
stack value? longjmp() is used if you want to continue somewhere 
else.

Regards,
	Jo:rg

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