Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:00:19 GMT From: Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: standards/92362: [headers] [patch] Missing SIGPOLL in kernel headers Message-ID: <201101162200.p0GM0JuE066879@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR standards/92362; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, rmh@aybabtu.com
Cc: standards@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: standards/92362: [headers] [patch] Missing SIGPOLL in kernel headers
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:50:00 -0800
The OP's claim is wrong. SIGIO is a signal that can be discarded,
whereas SIGPOLL by definition terminates processes.
From SUSv7 (pardon the poor formatting):
The following signals shall be supported on all implementations
(default actions are explained below the table):
Signal Default Action Description
SIGPOLL T Pollable event.
T
Abnormal termination of the process. The process is terminated
with all the consequences of _exit() except that the status made
available to wait() and waitpid() indicates abnormal termination by
the specified signal.
From signal(3) (pardon the poor formatting):
23 SIGIO discard signal I/O is possible on a descriptor
(see fcntl(2))
SIGPOLL is actually somewhere between SIGIO and SIGIOT (SIBABRT),
but there isn't a 1:1 mapping for the signal definition. This is also
XSI Stream specific (which is not [fully] implemented in [Free]BSD).
SIGIO is also used by fcntl(2) to denote when I/O is available, but
this connotation is not noted in SUSv7 either.
This item should probably be closed as WONTFIX as we don't
implement SIGPOLL in its proper form.
Thanks,
-Garrett
PS FWIW GNU/Linux needs to be educated on the fact that SIGIO is a
discardable signal on other platforms and not an alias for SIGPOLL on
BSD (especially when they use it as an alias but don't document the
requirement >:(...), because a quick look at some glibc and Linux
headers shows that they are using them as a 1:1 mapping (I am using
Fedora 13 as a reference).
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