Re: Function sigvec removed in glibc 2.21

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Hi Carlos,

On 19 February 2015 at 18:19, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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

diff --git a/man3/sigvec.3 b/man3/sigvec.3
index 797d43d..2ccd8e7 100644
--- a/man3/sigvec.3
+++ b/man3/sigvec.3
@@ -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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