Re: sigdescr_np for SIGEMT is useless

2022-09-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Samuel Thibault wrote: > the foo.c testcase is missing as attachment Oops, sorry. > but please check whether this is a hurd-specific > issue or a generic glibc issue, as we have really much less manpower > than the glibc team in general. Here it is a bug in glibc in general, > and in Linux too (e

Re: sigdescr_np for SIGEMT is useless

2022-09-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, It is nice to see precise bug reports (though here the foo.c testcase is missing as attachment), but please check whether this is a hurd-specific issue or a generic glibc issue, as we have really much less manpower than the glibc team in general. Here it is a bug in glibc in general, and in

sigdescr_np for SIGEMT is useless

2022-09-02 Thread Bruno Haible
The function sigdescr_np is supposed to "return the message describing the signal signum" [1]. However, for the value SIGEMT, it returns a string without real information. If a user did not know what SIGEMT means before, he won't know it afterwards. How to reproduce: $ gcc -Wall foo.c $ ./a.out S