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Date:      Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:47:59 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
Subject:   Re: SIGUNUSED
Message-ID:  <867hu2gwuo.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20091106221150.GA60707@stack.nl> (Jilles Tjoelker's message of "Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:11:50 %2B0100")
References:  <permail-20091106213357f0889e84000012ed-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> <20091106221150.GA60707@stack.nl>

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Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> writes:
> That code is wrong, SIGUNUSED is not meant to be used in that way. It
> seems to originate from Linux, but it is not available on all
> architectures there, and where it is available it is a valid signal.

>From signal(7):

       SIGUNUSED    -,31,-     Term    Unused signal (will be SIGSYS)

and there is no higher-numbered signal, but the -s mean it is not
available on at alpha, sparc64 or mips.  There is no reference to it in
any section 2 or 3 man page.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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