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Release notes said we don't do sighandlers. Fixed.

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shivers 1997-04-22 17:55:50 +00:00
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@ -36,13 +36,13 @@ as a macro that can be embedded inside general Scheme code.
** Scsh as a systems-programming language
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Scsh additionally provides the low-level access to the operating system
normally associated with C. With the exception of signal handlers, the current
release provides full access to Posix, plus important non-Posix extensions,
such as complete sockets support. "Complete Posix" means: fork, exec & wait,
sockets, full read, write, open & close, seek & tell, complete file-system
access, including stat, chmod/chgrp/chown, symlink, FIFO & directory access,
tty & pty support, file locking, pipes, select, file-name pattern-matching,
time & date, environment variables, and more.
normally associated with C. The current release provides full access to Posix,
plus important non-Posix extensions, such as complete sockets
support. "Complete Posix" means: fork, exec & wait, sockets, full read, write,
open & close, seek & tell, complete file-system access, including stat,
chmod/chgrp/chown, symlink, FIFO & directory access, tty & pty support, file
locking, pipes, select, file-name pattern-matching, time & date, environment
variables, signal handlers, and more.
In brief, you can now write Unix systems programs in Scheme instead of C.
For example, we have implemented an extensible HTTP server at MIT entirely