Re: signal.in.h patch for DragonFly

[Thomas Klausner]

Hi!


On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 05:10:31PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > The attached patch adds DragonFly support to lib/signal.in.h, please apply 
> > it.
> 
> The comment says that this include of <pthread.h> is there to make sure that
> <signal.h> declares pthread_sigmask.
> 
> But on DragonFly (I checked versions 3.8, 4.6, and 4.8.0-RC), pthread_sigmask
> is already declared in <signal.h>, not in <pthread.h>.
> 
> So what is the point of the proposed patch? What does it improve/correct/fix?

Thanks for the analysis. I trusted the DragonFly person who added the
patch to have a point, but I trust your analysis more, so please
disregard the patch. I'll come back about it in case there is a reason
after all.

Thanks,
 Thomas