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

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-18T21:42:45Z

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 :-).

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).

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
>

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