Module Name: src
Committed By: kamil
Date: Tue May 22 02:31:57 UTC 2018
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man7: signal.7
Log Message:
Minor update to signal(7)
Note that SIGCHLD is not just a child exit signal.
Note that SIGIOT is PDP-11 specific signal.
Sponsored by <The NetBSD Foundation>
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.20 -r1.21 src/share/man/man7/signal.7
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
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Modified files:
Index: src/share/man/man7/signal.7
diff -u src/share/man/man7/signal.7:1.20 src/share/man/man7/signal.7:1.21
--- src/share/man/man7/signal.7:1.20 Tue Jul 12 12:39:04 2016
+++ src/share/man/man7/signal.7 Tue May 22 02:31:57 2018
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: signal.7,v 1.20 2016/07/12 12:39:04 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: signal.7,v 1.21 2018/05/22 02:31:57 kamil Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2016 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd July 9, 2016
+.Dd May 22, 2018
.Dt SIGNAL 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ The following signals are defined in
.It Dv SIGSTOP Ta "Suspended (signal)"
.It Dv SIGTSTP Ta "Suspended"
.It Dv SIGCONT Ta "Continued"
-.It Dv SIGCHLD Ta "Child exited"
+.It Dv SIGCHLD Ta "Child exited, stopped or continued"
.It Dv SIGTTIN Ta "Stopped (tty input)"
.It Dv SIGTTOU Ta "Stopped (tty output)"
.It Dv SIGIO Ta "I/O possible"
@@ -221,7 +221,9 @@ The number for
is 6.
This number was also formerly used for
.Dv SIGIOT ,
-which is no longer defined.
+which is no longer defined,
+as it was specific to the PDP-11 instruction
+.Dv iot .
.\" ************
.It Dv SIGEMT Ta (EMT trap)
In theory this signal is generated when an instruction needs to be
@@ -389,7 +391,7 @@ The number for
.Dv SIGCONT
is 19.
.\" ************
-.It Dv SIGCHLD Ta (Child exited)
+.It Dv SIGCHLD Ta (Child exited, stopped or continued)
This signal is generated by the kernel when one of a process's
immediate children exits and can be waited for using one of the
.Xr wait 2
