A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1138 ====================================================================== Reported By: joerg Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2016)/Issue7+TC2 Issue ID: 1138 Category: System Interfaces Type: Enhancement Request Severity: Editorial Priority: normal Status: New Name: Jörg Schilling Organization: User Reference: Section: System Interfaces Page Number: new interface Line Number: newinterface Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2017-04-27 12:02 UTC Last Modified: 2020-09-10 19:01 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: Add strsignal(), sig2str() and str2sig() to the standard. ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0004986) kre (reporter) - 2020-09-10 19:01 https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1138#c4986 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Re https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1138#c4984 It makes no real difference whether one or both of these are required to be async-signal-safe - if one is, the other will be - they use the exact same data mapping names to numbers, just one looks up the name, and returns the number, and the other looks up the number and returns the name. It is getting the data that is the issue, the lookups and result returning are not an issue. While open/read/close are OK to use (as is stat() which might be needed), malloc() is not, and until we see the file (its size, or perhaps its contents) we don't know how big the buffer might need to be. If we have to malloc() we cannot be async-signal-safe. Re https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1138#c4983 ... I am not implementing Solaris, nor am I copying its decisions. We still allow (and actually generate some) static binaries and they should work (and ideally keep on working into the future). While there are issues with running really old static binaries, with careful attention by the system, it can be done. But some data cannot help needing to be updated, that data cannot be built into the application, or any library it uses, or it will certainly cause problems. While I don't really care about these functions for NetBSD, as absolutely nothing would ever use them, I do care that the standard isn't written in a way that precludes various different (reasonable) implementations. The remote outside chance that some application might want to use sig2str() in a signal handler doesn't justify forcing a low quality implementation. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2017-04-27 12:02 joerg New Issue 2017-04-27 12:02 joerg Name => Jörg Schilling 2017-04-27 12:02 joerg Section => System Interfaces 2017-04-27 12:02 joerg Page Number => new interface 2017-04-27 12:02 joerg Line Number => newinterface 2017-04-27 12:11 joerg Note Added: 0003678 2017-04-27 13:32 schwarze Note Added: 0003679 2017-04-27 14:15 joerg Note Added: 0003680 2017-04-27 15:47 kre Note Added: 0003681 2017-04-27 16:30 jilles Note Added: 0003682 2017-04-28 02:14 kre Note Added: 0003683 2017-04-28 02:49 kre Note Added: 0003684 2017-05-04 10:57 joerg Note Added: 0003685 2017-05-04 12:29 kre Note Added: 0003686 2017-05-10 02:00 kre Note Added: 0003688 2017-05-10 02:00 kre Note Deleted: 0003683 2017-05-10 02:00 kre Note Deleted: 0003684 2017-05-10 02:31 kre Note Edited: 0003688 2017-05-10 02:31 kre Note Edited: 0003688 2018-10-11 15:48 Don Cragun Note Added: 0004148 2019-01-16 13:36 ajosey Note Added: 0004212 2020-09-08 09:30 geoffclare Note Added: 0004975 2020-09-08 09:30 geoffclare Note Edited: 0004975 2020-09-08 15:32 kre Note Added: 0004976 2020-09-08 21:37 joerg Note Added: 0004977 2020-09-08 22:49 kre Note Added: 0004978 2020-09-08 23:12 kre Note Added: 0004979 2020-09-08 23:13 kre Note Deleted: 0004979 2020-09-09 11:27 joerg Note Added: 0004980 2020-09-10 10:55 geoffclare Note Edited: 0004975 2020-09-10 10:59 geoffclare Note Added: 0004981 2020-09-10 13:05 kre Note Added: 0004982 2020-09-10 13:30 joerg Note Added: 0004983 2020-09-10 14:31 geoffclare Note Added: 0004984 2020-09-10 14:31 geoffclare Note Edited: 0004984 2020-09-10 19:01 kre Note Added: 0004986 ======================================================================
