Re: Mention signal fixes in NEWS

Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-14T12:38:00Z

> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:33:40 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> >
> > I'd prefer that we spell out what this ``support for sigaltstack and
> > sigaction'' means, in user-level terms. That is, what exactly didn't
> > work before and now does, when sigaltstack and sigaction are involved?
>
> ... include: backtraces through non-contigious stacks (see
> sigaltstack(2)); recognition of sa_sigaction signal trampolines (see
> sigaction(2)); ...

I think it's enough to add this text (even without the references to
the functions' man pages).

> However we can probably safely state that the features do work on
> ``i386 GNU/Linux systems that include a 2.4 kernel''.

That's good enough, I think.