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