From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 30 02:59:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA15848 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 02:59:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA15835; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 02:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id TAA08030; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 19:29:10 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980630192910.H1880@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 19:29:10 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Marino Ladavac , FreeBSD Hackers Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mkn Subject: Re: Unsupport calls References: <19980630155609.W1880@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Marino Ladavac on Tue, Jun 30, 1998 at 09:54:10AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 30 June 1998 at 9:54:10 +0200, Marino Ladavac wrote: > > On 30-Jun-98 Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> sigwait - no support in FreeBSD. >>> sigset - no support in FreeBSD >>> sighold - no support in FreeBSD >>> sigrelse - no support in FreeBSD >> >> These are the System V signal functions, arguably the worst choice of >> the currently available signal implementations. FreeBSD has the BSD >> functions instead, as well as the POSIX.1 signals which were derived >> from them. See more about this in my book "Porting UNIX software". I >> recommend porting to the POSIX.1 signals, which are also supported by >> Solaris. >> > sigwait is in libc_r, being a part of POSIX pthread specification. That's a different sigwait. This one is, by association, one of the calls of the System V signals implementation. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message