Re: lib/59467: Missing POSIX sig2str(3) & str2sig(3) calls

["Robert Elz via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/59467; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: lib/59467: Missing POSIX sig2str(3) & str2sig(3) calls
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:35:25 +0700

     Date:        Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:25:00 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        rbranco%suse.de@localhost
     Message-ID:  <20250615132500.C9EE91A9241%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
 
   | Missing POSIX sig2str(3) & str2sig(3) calls.
 
 This is a duplicate of PR lib/59141 which I plan on (probably)
 handling someday...
 
 Those functions are ancient, from a time when "the buffer will
 be bit enough" was handled by magic, and really are very poorly
 designed.   NetBSD has better.
 
 But I will, when I get around to it, implement those ancient
 ones, in terms of our better version, just to keep any apps
 that expect them to be available, happy.
 
   | and optionally adapt fstat, kill & others.
 
 That would certainly be the wrong thing to do, any code that
 already handles signal names is almost certainly doing a better
 job of it than can be done using those crufty interfaces - the
 only reason to have them is for code that wants to use them,
 nothing should ever be being converted to use those interfaces.
 
 kre