Re: [PATCH] Generate signal names at runtime

Henrik Lindström <[email protected]> wrote:
> They were previously generated at buildtime by mksignames.c, but that
> approach had two flaws:
> 1. The signal names were generated for the host system rather than the
>   target system, resulting in broken cross-compiled builds.
> 2. The SIGRTMIN and SIGRTMAX macros are usually implemented as
>   function calls and can only be surely known at runtime.
> 
> The new implementation has been tested to generate identical signal names
> as before on these systems:
> * Debian 12 (glibc, odd number of realtime signals)
> * Alpine 3.18 (musl, even number of realtime signals)
> * FreeBSD 14
> 
> Signed-off-by: Henrik Lindström <[email protected]>

Now that glibc has sigabbrev_np we should switch to using that
on Linux, perhaps with the existing code as a fallback.  BSD
has always had ways of getting the signal name, though it may
not be very portable so we'd need different flavours if people
cared enough to add them.

Thanks,
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