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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2020-05-25 18:32:28 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2020-05-25 18:32:28 +0200
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signal: Deprecate additional legacy signal handling functions
This needs a few test adjustments: In some cases, sigignore was
used for convenience (replaced with xsignal with SIG_IGN).  Tests
for the deprecated functions need to disable
-Wdeprecated-declarations, and for the sigmask deprecation,
-Wno-error.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
   Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
   was not declared in any header file.
 
+* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
+  sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
+  deprecated.  Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
+  sigaction functions instead.
+
 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
   already supported this format for almost 20 years.