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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-headers/signal.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-headers/signal.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..99ad79e --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-headers/signal.texi @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +@node signal.h +@section @file{signal.h} + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/signal.h.html} + +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 <sys/types.h> on some platforms: +mingw. +@item +@code{struct sigaction} and @code{siginfo_t} are missing on some +platforms: +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 2010-11, 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 |