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| author | Rical Jasan <ricaljasan@pacific.net> | 2016-10-06 12:18:05 +0530 |
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| committer | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> | 2016-10-06 12:18:05 +0530 |
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Manual typos: Signal Handling
2016-05-06 Rical Jasan <ricaljasan@pacific.net>
* manual/signal.texi: Fix typos in the manual.
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@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2016-10-06 Rical Jasan <ricaljasan@pacific.net> + * manual/signal.texi: Fix typos in the manual. + * manual/setjmp.texi: Fix typos in the manual. * manual/resource.texi: Fix typos in the manual. diff --git a/manual/signal.texi b/manual/signal.texi index 77f3d7c..79e190d 100644 --- a/manual/signal.texi +++ b/manual/signal.texi @@ -1207,7 +1207,7 @@ the signal. These are described in more detail in @ref{Flags for Sigaction}. @safety{@prelim{}@mtsafe{}@assafe{}@acsafe{}} The @var{action} argument is used to set up a new action for the signal @var{signum}, while the @var{old-action} argument is used to return -information about the action previously associated with this symbol. +information about the action previously associated with this signal. (In other words, @var{old-action} has the same purpose as the @code{signal} function's return value---you can check to see what the old action in effect for the signal was, and restore it later if you @@ -2092,7 +2092,7 @@ it can also handle a signal in the middle of clearing the flag. (This is an example of the sort of reasoning you need to do to figure out whether non-atomic usage is safe.) -Sometimes you can insure uninterrupted access to one object by +Sometimes you can ensure uninterrupted access to one object by protecting its use with another object, perhaps one whose type guarantees atomicity. @xref{Merged Signals}, for an example. @@ -3371,7 +3371,7 @@ signals. The return value is the previous set of blocked signals. @c The exception are BSD systems other than 4.4, where it is a syscall. @c sigsetmask @asulock/hurd @aculock/hurd @c sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK) dup @asulock/hurd @aculock/hurd [no @mtasurace:sigprocmask/bsd(SIG_UNBLOCK)] -This function equivalent to @code{sigprocmask} (@pxref{Process +This function is equivalent to @code{sigprocmask} (@pxref{Process Signal Mask}) with a @var{how} argument of @code{SIG_SETMASK}: it sets the calling process's signal mask to @var{mask}. The return value is the previous set of blocked signals. |