Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 09:50:01 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: docs/3047 & cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys sigaction.2 Message-ID: <199703251750.JAA26871@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/3047; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org,
cvs-lib@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org,
fenner@parc.xerox.com
Subject: Re: docs/3047 & cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys sigaction.2
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 09:45:58 PST
> Change the description of how attempts to block SIGKILL and SIGSTOP
> are handled. The system call will actually fail in this case - the
> system doesn't silently ignore the request. Closes PR# 3047
Um, if this is what you took from my wording then I did an even poorer
job than the man page did.
All I meant was that the antecedent of "This" in the second sentence
of
NOTE
The mask specified in act is not allowed to block SIGKILL or SIGSTOP.
This is done silently by the system.
is potentially unclear. The first time I read this man page I thought
the antecedent was "block SIGKILL [and] SIGSTOP", e.g. "the system
silently blocks SIGKILL [and] SIGSTOP". The real meaning (and an
alternative reading of the same sentence) is "the system silently
ignores attempts to block SIGKILL or SIGSTOP"; I just wanted to make
that sentence less ambiguous.
Attempting to block SIGKILL and SIGSTOP is not an error and is silently
ignored by the system. Everything else that the system call is
attempting to do succeeds. (At least, this is what POSIX says, and
this is what 2.2 does).
(While writing my test program to make absolutely sure, I noticed that the
first line should probably read "The mask specified in the sa_mask field"
or something similar, too...)
Bill
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