[PATCH v3 02/13] signal: Move sys_siglist to a compat symbol

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Thu May 28 14:50:05 GMT 2020


* Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha:

> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 10473bd514..f5b8954b12 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
>  * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
>    already supported this format for almost 20 years.
>  
> +* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
> +  arrays are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their
> +  declarations have been removed from from <string.h>.  They are exported
> +  solely as compatibility symbols to support old binaries.  All programs
> +  should use strsignal instead.

Two “arrays”, “from from”.

The mechanics of the patch look okay to me.

Thanks,
Florian



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