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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:13:53 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problem: sigrelse() in winsup but not defined in signal.h
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On Nov 10 13:33, Scott Finneran wrote:
> Hello Igor,
> 
> Thankyou for your reply. Firstly, yes I should have done a bit more 
> reading before posting. I did as you suggested and downloaded the latest 
> snapshot (winsup-src-20051108).
> 
> The problem that I experienced before still exists in the latest 
> snapshot. sigrelse() is defined in winsup/cygwin/exceptions.cc but is 
> not declared in signal.h (sighold() etc. are all declared here).
> 
> Producing a patch to fix this issue is a trivial task which I am more 
> than happy to do. However, as this situation (defined but not declared) 
> is such a show-stopper and cygwin always seems to be well tested I 
> assumed that it was not a bug but some kind of a feature.
> 
> In other words, is the function implemented but not defined 
> intentionally to prevent people from using it for some unspecified reason?
> 
> Any insight would be appreciated.

See my reply to cygwin-patches.  It was just a missing prototype.


Corinna

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