Re: Does Cygwin have str2sig/sig2str?

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>]

On May 20 15:23, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021, 2:54 PM Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On May 20 09:58, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > The next POSIX version is wrapping up and unless something changes will
> > be
> > > adding str2sig and sig2str. Does Cygwin have those?
> > >
> > > I'm asking to see if we adapt the Cygwin version for general use or have
> > to
> > > write it from scratch.
> > >
> > > The glibc and Illumos implementations are what you would expect. They
> > just
> >
> > I don't see glibc defining the above symbols in the master branch.
> >
> 
> Hmm ... Maybe google found someone's branch.
> 
> 
> > > use an array of { signal, string_name} and a lookup search.
> > > Something similar would be OK for newlib.
> >
> > Cygwin exports two functions with equivalent functionality:
> >
> >   char *strsignal (int signo);
> >   int strtosigno (const char *name);
> >
> > see the file winsup/cygwin/strsig.cc.
> >
> 
> I think those are the bsd equivalents.
> 
> Would it be ok to generalize that and provide the new POSIX as well as the
> BSD interfaces?

Don't ask, just do it.  Let's discuss existing patch proposals.

One problem: strsignal requires thread local storage, which isn't
generically available in newlib.  Ideally Cygwin's strsignal is
rewritten in terms of sig2str, just

- using _my_tls.locals.signamebuf as parameter and

- SIG2STR_MAX must be == sizeof ("Unknown signal 4294967295   ") for
  backward compatibility.


Thanks,
Corinna