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Date:      Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:51:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jonathan Mini <mini@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/i386/gen signalcontext.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10209171546001.29310-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020917150418.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, John Baldwin wrote:

> 
> On 17-Sep-2002 Archie Cobbs wrote:
> > Jonathan Mini writes:
> >> mini        2002/09/16 20:11:07 PDT
> >> 
> >>   Added files:
> >>     lib/libc/i386/gen    signalcontext.c 
> >>   Log:
> >>   Add signalcontext(), which adds a signal frame to a ucontext_t.
> > 
> > Where is this specified? Is there a man page? Or is this an
> > internal-only function?
> 
> Also, I thought Dan Eischen (sp?) said it needed to be defined with
> as _signalcontext() rather than signalcontext() in a message from
> yesterday?  (Which implies that this is a private function.)

Jon committed the change to make it __signalcontext separately.

This is a private function which is there to aid in making
a signalframe in userland.  The threads library(ies) will
use this to install a signal frame on top of a thread's
interrupted context.

-- 
Dan Eischen


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