Re: Does Cygwin have str2sig/sig2str?

Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

> 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.


HTH,
Corinna
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