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Mention effects of _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS on Solaris.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:50:16 +0200
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@node sigwait
@section @code{sigwait}
@findex sigwait

POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/sigwait.html}

Gnulib module: ---

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
mingw, BeOS.
@item
This function has an incompatible declaration on some platforms:
Solaris 10 (when @code{_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS} is not defined).
@item
On Linux/glibc platforms before the advent of NPTL, signals could only be
sent to one particular thread.  In POSIX, signals are sent to the entire
process and executed by any thread of the process that happens to have the
particular signal currently unblocked.
@end itemize