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Mention effects of _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS on Solaris.
author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |
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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