Subject: Re: sigvec and SV_INTERRUPT
To: Klaus Klein <kleink@reziprozitaet.de>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/03/2005 14:43:41
On Dec 3, 7:18pm, kleink@reziprozitaet.de (Klaus Klein) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: sigvec and SV_INTERRUPT
| On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:48:26AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
|
| > I consider lv broken for:
| > 1. using sigvec in the first place
| > 2. assuming that SV_INTERRUPT exists just because sigvec is in libc.
|
| Obsolescence of a (now) rarely used interface set aside, something
| went wrong in this part of compat reorg:
|
| * the prototype is no longer available through <signal.h>
And struct sigvec is not there either..
| * SV_INTERRUPT _is_ documented in sigvec(2), albeit the NOTES
| section's backward compatibility warning looks funny in light
| of the recent reorg.
I will fix the man page.
christos