Moving everything from signal.h to sys/signal.h
Christopher Faylor
me@cgf.cx
Fri Oct 8 17:42:00 GMT 2004
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:21:07PM -0400, Jeff Johnston wrote:
><sys/signal.h> is not defined by POSIX, ANSI, Single UNIX, or C99 so we're
>largely in undefined territory here. As previously noted, newlib's usage
>of the sys directory doesn't necessarily match up with other C libraries
>out there. It seems to me the ultimate goal you want to achieve is to
>allow existing code written against glibc that takes advantage of the fact
>that <signal.h> and <sys/signal.h> are interchangeable. An easy solution
>would be to add a check in the default <sys/signal.h> that if _SIGNAL_H_
>wasn't already defined, to include <signal.h>. Does that seem reasonable
>to you?
Yes, that seems fine. I do like trying to be as close to glibc as possible,
too.
cgf
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