[klibc] [PATCH] signal.h

[H. Peter Anvin]

Erik van Konijnenburg wrote:
> This patch does two things.
> 
> This test program results (on i386) in an error about _NSIG:
> 
> 	#include <signal.h>
> 	#if defined (SIGRTMAX)
> 	int rtmax = SIGRTMAX;
> 	#endif
> 
> The cause is that the kernel signal.h defines SIGRTMAX as _NSIG,
> then makes _NSIG invisibelby hiding it inside ifdef __KERNEL__.
> Perhaps it's more elegant to solve this in the kernel,
> but the ramifications of that scare me.
> 

Okay, that one is nasty; I'll have to think carefully about how to deal 
with that.

 >
> The other issue is that signal() is not provided by klibc.
> Here it's defined to be equal to bsd_signal, consistent with glibc
> behaviour.  I'm none too sure about the need for this one.
> 

This one I will not apply.  signal() is ambiguous -- in fact depending 
on which libc version in Linux you'll get either sysv_signal() or 
bsd_signal.  Use -Dsignal=bsd_signal or -Dsignal=sysv_signal if you have 
to deal with legacy code.

	-hpa