From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 13 20:46:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08715 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:46:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wcc.wcc.net (wcc.wcc.net [208.6.232.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA08705 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:46:15 GMT (envelope-from piquan@wcc.wcc.net) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tnt81.wcc.net [208.10.139.81]) by wcc.wcc.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01386; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:41:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA08670; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:44:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:44:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804140344.WAA08670@detlev.UUCP> To: fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk CC: rotel@indigo.ie, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980413160603.35279@jraynard.demon.co.uk> (message from James Raynard on Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:06:03 +0100) Subject: Re: PR kern/1144 From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199804131247.NAA01565@indigo.ie> <19980413160603.35279@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> The abovementioned PR is for sig{add, del}set and sigismember. >> Apparently POSIX requires that these functions check that the >> specified signal number exists, which they currently do not do. > Ah yes, that was one I submitted so long ago I'd forgotten about > the email account I sent it from. :-) BTW if whoever was responsible > for the weekly mailing of outstanding PRs is reading this, is there > any chance of getting it back? >> These functions are currently defined as macro's, I don't see any >> nice, fast, MT-safe way that only evaluates the signal number >> argument once that adds the checking that POSIX requires while >> keeping them as macros. > I very much doubt that one exists. I forget, what's our position on using gcc's extentions? It's got some very nice macro features that seem like they could work. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message