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Function sigvec removed in glibc 2.21

DISCUSSION Carlos O'Donell 2 participants 3 messages Feb 19, 2015 2 messages not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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Hi Carlos,

Quoted 6 lines · Carlos O'Donell

Michael,

We should update man3/sigvec.3 to indicate it can no longer be used on Linux with glibc 2.21. The sigvec function was removed in glibc 2.21.

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.21#Packaging_Changes

Thanks for the heads-up. I already committed the following a while back:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/man3/sigvec.3?id=5587b44c90ca19abf75e96c3e85371366b72e4da

Okay?

Cheers,

Michael

man3/sigvec.3 +0 -0
index 797d43d..2ccd8e7 100644
@@ -231,6 +231,13 @@ functions are thread-safe.

The
.BR sigmask ()
macro is thread-safe.
+.SH VERSIONS
+Starting with version 2.21, the GNU C library no longer exports the +.BR sigvec ()
+function as part of the ABI.
+(To ensure backward compatibility,
+the glibc symbol versioning scheme continues to export the interface +to binaries linked against older versions of the library.) .SH CONFORMING TO
All of these functions were in
4.3BSD, except

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Quoted 8 lines · Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

Hi Carlos,

Quoted 5 lines · Carlos O'Donell

Michael,

We should update man3/sigvec.3 to indicate it can no longer be used on Linux with glibc 2.21. The sigvec function was removed in glibc 2.21.

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https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.21#Packaging_Changes

Thanks for the heads-up. I already committed the following a while back:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/man3/sigvec.3?id=5587b44c90ca19abf75e96c3e85371366b72e4da

Okay?

Perfect.

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Cheers,

Michael

man3/sigvec.3 +0 -0
index 797d43d..2ccd8e7 100644
@@ -231,6 +231,13 @@ functions are thread-safe.

The
.BR sigmask ()
macro is thread-safe.
+.SH VERSIONS

man3/sigvec.3 +6 -0
+Starting with version 2.21, the GNU C library no longer exports the
+.BR sigvec ()
+function as part of the ABI.
+(To ensure backward compatibility,
+the glibc symbol versioning scheme continues to export the interface
+to binaries linked against older versions of the library.)
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.SH CONFORMING TO
All of these functions were in
4.3BSD, except

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