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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: SunOS4.1.3 to Solaris2.5.1 Porting issues.
Date: 19 Dec 1996 13:39:56 GMT
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jum@anubis.han.de (Jens-Uwe Mager) wrote:

> I think it would be a mistake to provide sigsetmask if you are not able to
> manipulate all signals using it. As Solaris 2 uses more than 32 signals, a
> few would simply be discarded by the C integer arithmetic generating the
> mask and thus would not be masked.

That's no excuse for not having a man page, and a libcompat.  By
explicitly adding -lcompat to the command line, the user basically
agrees that he knows about the warning in the sigmumble() man page.
At least, he should have learnt from the SEE ALSO section which
function to use as the correct replacement.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j