On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:33:22 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> > I agree. Mac OS X tells me nothing apart from what's in signal.h,  
> 
> man siginfo in Solaris and man sigaction in AIX and Tru64 are quite
> helpful.  But I think for the time being the attached patch will have

Thanks, the attached patch applied as change #25207

> to do: only signo, code, errno are decoded (seems the be the smallest
> supported set from my smaple), and the test is changed to test just for
> the signal value itself -- I can't see why anyone would bother
> implementing even a little bit of SA_SIGINFO and fail to supply
> the signal value -- but I have been known to be too optimistic.
> If even that fails, the whole test needs to be excised.
> 
> Perl cannot help systems that aren't POSIX, whether they claim it or
> not, on purpose or not.

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