[PING] [PATCH v2] sigprocmask.2: do not specify an exact value of rt_sigprocmask's 4th argument
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From: Dmitry V. Levin <hidden>
Date: 2017-03-15 09:49:00
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
As sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) is not the same for all architectures, it would be better not to mention any numbers as its value. Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <redacted> --- v2: mention that sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) is architecture specific. man2/sigprocmask.2 | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/sigprocmask.2 b/man2/sigprocmask.2
index 8388340..499fd0c 100644
--- a/man2/sigprocmask.2
+++ b/man2/sigprocmask.2@@ -202,10 +202,11 @@ which specifies the size in bytes of the signal sets in .IR set and .IR oldset . -This argument is currently required to have the value 8 -( -.IR sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) -). +This argument is currently required to have a fixed architecture specific value +(equal to +.IR sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) ). +.\" sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) == _NSIG / 8, +.\" which equals to 8 on most architectures, but e.g. on MIPS it's 16. The glibc .BR sigprocmask ()
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