Make string.h strsignal prototype return const char *

Hans-Peter Nilsson hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com
Mon Jan 24 00:27:00 GMT 2005


> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:21:02 -0500
> From: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>

> Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> >>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:52:22 -0500
> >>From: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
> >>An alternative to your solution would be to move the strsignal declaration out 
> >>of string.h and into a new libc/sys/linux/sys/string.h.  Have string.h #include 
> >><sys/string.h>.  In libc/include/sys/string.h have a placeholder comment.

Your patch implementing this works; no surprise there.

> Index: libc/sys/linux/sys/string.h
...
> +#endif /* _SYS_STRING_H */
> +
> +

Beware of spurious newlines at the end of that file.

brgds, H-P



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