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   On 2025-11-08, Lew Pitcher  wrote:   
   > On Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:01:00 +0000, Michael Sanders wrote:   
   >   
   >> One of many newbie questions from me... Cant find the info I'm looking for.   
   >>   
   >> If SIG_IGN is an acronym for signal ignore, then what does DFL mean?   
   >> I've know (well I presume) it restores default behavior, but the acronym?   
   >   
   > From the C11 draft standard (yes, I know, but that's the most current I have)   
   >   
   > 7.14.1.1 The signal function   
   >          2. ... If the value of func is SIG_DFL, default handling for that   
   >             signal will occur.   
   >   
   > Neither the C standard, nor the Posix standards or Unix manuals before that,   
   > seem to specify exactly _why_ SIG_DFL is named that way.   
      
   It's not named SIGNAL_DEFAULT probably in order to harmonize with   
   strpbrk, which is not named string_pointer_to_break.   
      
   Programmers long ago loved creating "bumper stumpers" by removing   
   vowels and some consontants too.   
      
   I agree with them; I positively never want to write shit like   
      
     #include    
      
   or work in any tech stack where that is the norm.   
      
   The superfluous  "std" should have been omitted from ; other   
   standard headers do not carry a reminder that they are standard, like   
   ,  or .   
      
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