which running thread gests the external signal

[Alin-Adrian Anton]

Daniel Eischen wrote:
> You are entirely confused.  You should go back to the POSIX standard
> and get Dave Butenhof's Programming with POSIX Threads book.
> 
[..]

You are right. All is clear now, i re-read the link twice and played 
with sigprocmask vs. pthread_sigmask. It's clear now, also with the help of:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/sigprocmask.html

Thank you very much! (all involved)

Regards,
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