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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2011-07-05 23:48:19 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2011-07-06 00:44:20 -0700 |
| commit | 8750d25d450a75684c2f29e2eea2467cea18f076 (patch) | |
| tree | 68508c1fc9d4bb6926e0b00c64511f6120bff7da /doc/posix-functions/pselect.texi | |
| parent | cf74a3953bedd79cd53057aa00f1c90019c10102 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-8750d25d450a75684c2f29e2eea2467cea18f076.tar.gz | |
pselect: document better
* MODULES.html.sh (Support for systems lacking POSIX:2008): Add it.
* doc/posix-functions/pselect.texi (pselect): Document new module.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/posix-functions/pselect.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/pselect.texi | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/pselect.texi b/doc/posix-functions/pselect.texi index ce672ee481..ca98731bbd 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/pselect.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/pselect.texi @@ -8,11 +8,16 @@ Gnulib module: --- Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item -This function is missing on some platforms: -OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 9, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS. +When the @var{sigmask} argument is nonnull on platforms that do not +natively support this function, race conditions are possible when its +gnulib implementation temporarily modifies the signal mask, and the +behavior is unspecified in a multi-threaded process. @end itemize |