"
 COPYRIGHT (c) 1995 by Claus Gittinger
	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used
 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
 hereby transferred.
"

Signal subclass:#QuerySignal
	 instanceVariableNames:''
	 classVariableNames:''
	 poolDictionaries:''
	 category:'Kernel-Exceptions'
!

!QuerySignal class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright
"
 COPYRIGHT (c) 1995 by Claus Gittinger
	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used
 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
 hereby transferred.
"
!

version
"
$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/QuerySignal.st,v 1.2 1995-09-03 15:06:01 claus Exp $
"
!

documentation
"
    QuerySignals are like signals, except that they are not accepted
    by handlers for ordinary signals.
    I.e. a signal handler for a normal signal will not handle a query
    signal. Thus, these bypass any Object-ErrorSignal handler.
"
! !

!QuerySignal methodsFor:'queries'!

isQuerySignal
    ^ true
!

accepts:aSignal
    "return true, if the receiver accepts the argument, aSignal.
     (i.e. the receiver is aSignal or a parent of it). False otherwise."

    |s|

    aSignal isQuerySignal ifFalse:[^ false].

    s := aSignal.
    [s notNil] whileTrue:[
	self == s ifTrue:[^ true].
	s := s parent
    ].
    ^ false
! !