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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2010-04-25 19:50:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2010-04-25 19:50:16 +0200 |
| commit | 3a684fbdcc7cc1381585d5c2c8c27099bf4a1281 (patch) | |
| tree | 73ce432ff075b006aea322c4a8122b49abc126bd /doc/posix-functions/sigwait.texi | |
| parent | f62e9d92ff548d8671fef70f42d1a173933cceb5 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-3a684fbdcc7cc1381585d5c2c8c27099bf4a1281.tar.gz | |
Mention effects of _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS on Solaris.
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diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/sigwait.texi b/doc/posix-functions/sigwait.texi index 65ccfff808..21fb89d30e 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/sigwait.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/sigwait.texi @@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: This function is missing on some platforms: mingw, BeOS. @item +This function has an incompatible declaration on some platforms: +Solaris 10 (when @code{_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS} is not defined). +@item On Linux/glibc platforms before the advent of NPTL, signals could only be sent to one particular thread. In POSIX, signals are sent to the entire process and executed by any thread of the process that happens to have the |