bad system call on HP-UX 10.20

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:17:01AM -0600, David DeSimone wrote:

> > At least I don't get "bad system call" any more.  Nevertheless a
> > program should never crash, but instead throw out an error message.
> 
> The problem is that for some reason, libc implements the system-call
> callout, but the OS does not support the system-call.  The standard
> method for dealing with a bad system-call is to send the process a
> SIGSYS signal, which is what's happening.  The process basically gets
> killed; the "bad system call" message comes from your shell, reporting
> the method that caused the process to die.
> 
> SIGSYS is not one of the signals that GnuPG attempts to catch or handle.

Ok, but since we know that this fails as root on HP-UX (on your box too?),
one could code around this...

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