pfm_$init(3)

NAME

pfm_$init − initialize the process fault manager (PFM) package

SYNOPSIS

C Syntax

#include <idl/c/base.h>
#include <ppfm.h>

void pfm_$init(
unsigned long flags)

Remarks

To view this manual entry via the man(1) command, use the function name shown above without the “$” character.

DESCRIPTION

pfm_$init() initializes the PFM package. The flags parameter indicates which initialization activities to perform.

Currently, only one flags value is valid:

pfm_$init_signal_handlers()
Intercept C signals and convert them to PFM signals. The following HP-UX signals are intercepted: SIGINT, SIGILL, SIGFPE, SIGTERM, SIGHUP, SIGQUIT, SIGTRAP, SIGBUS, SIGSEGV, and SIGSYS. On MS-DOS systems, the first four of these, plus SIGABRT, are intercepted.

On Apollo systems, the PFM package does not require initialization, and pfm_$init() is a no-op. On all other systems, applications that use the PFM package should invoke pfm_$init() before invoking any other NCS calls.