X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-headers%2Fsignal.texi;h=68a808a7c335cf0d6a20d4d2e0b477cd1d8acc89;hb=7e105c7957aab59bbf060758c2b3e285feaea229;hp=924408992f0fbe657f9b1f9f83745f0b4b068c41;hpb=a3f953e86848ed858ed655bba12a7fbbab57f1c5;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-headers/signal.texi b/doc/posix-headers/signal.texi index 924408992..68a808a7c 100644 --- a/doc/posix-headers/signal.texi +++ b/doc/posix-headers/signal.texi @@ -1,27 +1,61 @@ @node signal.h @section @file{signal.h} -POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xbd/signal.h.html} +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/signal.h.html} -Gnulib module: signal +Gnulib module: signal-h Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item +@code{volatile sig_atomic_t} is rejected by older compilers on some +platforms: +AIX. +@item +@code{sigset_t} is missing on some platforms: +MSVC 9. +@item @code{sigset_t} is only declared in on some platforms: mingw. - @item @code{struct sigaction} and @code{siginfo_t} are missing on some platforms: -mingw. - +mingw, MSVC 9. @item @code{struct sigaction} lacks the @code{sa_sigaction} member on some platforms: Irix 5.3, Interix 3.5. +@item +The type @code{pid_t} is not defined on some platforms: +MSVC 9. +@item +The signal @code{SIGPIPE} is not defined on some platforms: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@item +The macro @code{SA_NODEFER} is not defined on some platforms: +Interix 3.5. +@item +The macros @code{SA_RESETHAND} and @code{SA_RESTART} are not defined +on some platforms: +NonStop. +@item +The type @code{sighandler_t} (a GNU extension) is not defined on most non-glibc +platforms: +MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, +IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +Many signals are not defined on some platforms: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@item +The macros @code{SIGRTMIN} and @code{SIGRTMAX} expand to an expression of type +@code{long} instead of @code{int} on some platforms: +OSF/1 5.1. +@item +The macro @code{SIGBUS} is set to the same value as @code{SIGSEGV}, +rather than being a distinct signal, on some platforms: +Haiku. @end itemize