Re: [PATCH 8/9] system_data_types.7: Document siginfo_t

Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-18T21:45:50Z

Hi Michael,

On 2020-09-18 23:42, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> See below.
>
>
> On 9/18/20 7:04 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> Note: There are a few members off this structure that are
>> not required by POSIX (XSI extensions, and such).
>>
>> I simply chose to not document them at all.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> man7/system_data_types.7 | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/man7/system_data_types.7 b/man7/system_data_types.7
>> index f7d25bec9..b705ed5ae 100644
>> --- a/man7/system_data_types.7
>> +++ b/man7/system_data_types.7
>> @@ -213,6 +213,35 @@ See also:
>> See also the
>> .I aiocb
>> structure in this page.
>> +.\"------------------------------------- siginfo_t --------------------/
>> +.TP
>> +.I siginfo_t
>> +.IP
>> +Include:
>> +.IR <signal.h> ;
>> +or
>> +.IR <sys/wait.h> .
>> +.IP
>> +.EX
>> +typedef struct {
>> + int si_signo; /* Signal number */
>> + int si_code; /* Signal code */
>> +
>> + pid_t si_pid; /* Sending process ID */
>> + uid_t si_uid; /* Real user ID of sending process */
>> + void *si_addr; /* Address of faulting instruction */
>> + int si_status; /* Exit value or signal */
>> +
>> + union sigval si_value; /* Signal value */
>> +} siginfo_t;
>> +.EE
>> +.\".IP
>> +.\" FIXME: Add a description?
>> +.IP
>> +Conforming to: POSIX.1-2001 and later.
>> +.IP
>> +See also:
>> +.BR regexec (3)
>
> Long day for both of us, and I think the line above shows that :-).

Ooooooooops! :p

I'll rebase tomorrow, and then I'll start fixing things...

Too many patches for today!

>
> I'm not applying this patch (or the corresponding link patch)...
>
> For "description" (in the next iteration of this patch),
> I think you should defer to sigaction(2).

Ok, thanks!

Cheers,

Alex

>
> Thanks
>
> Michael
>
>> .\"------------------------------------- sigval -----------------------/
>> .TP
>> .I sigval
>> @@ -239,9 +268,9 @@ See also:
>> See also the
>> .I sigevent
>> structure
>> -.\"and the
>> -.\".I siginfo_t FIXME
>> -.\"type
>> +and the
>> +.I siginfo_t
>> +type
>> in this page.
>> .\"------------------------------------- size_t -----------------------/
>> .TP
>>
>
>