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diff --git a/manual/signal.texi b/manual/signal.texi index 08ee785c8c..4340ee7cbd 100644 --- a/manual/signal.texi +++ b/manual/signal.texi @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ In fact, if @code{SIGKILL} fails to terminate a process, that by itself constitutes an operating system bug which you should report. The system will generate @code{SIGKILL} for a process itself under some -unusual conditions where the program cannot possible continue to run +unusual conditions where the program cannot possibly continue to run (even to run a signal handler). @end deftypevr @cindex kill signal @@ -1856,7 +1856,7 @@ blocks signals around each use, then you are safe. There are a large number of library functions that return values in a fixed object, always reusing the same object in this fashion, and all of -them cause the same problem. Function descriptions in this manual +them cause the same problem. Function descriptions in this manual always mention this behavior. @item @@ -2031,8 +2031,8 @@ atomically. In practice, you can assume that @code{int} and other integer types no longer than @code{int} are atomic. You can also assume that pointer -types are atomic; that is very convenient. Both of these assumptions -are true on all of the machines that the GNU C library supports and on +types are atomic; that is very convenient. Both of these assumptions +are true on all of the machines that the GNU C library supports and on all POSIX systems we know of. @c ??? This might fail on a 386 that uses 64-bit pointers. @@ -3011,7 +3011,7 @@ to terminate the process or invoke a signal handling function. In other words, the program is effectively suspended until one of the signals that is not a member of @var{set} arrives. -If the process is woken up by deliver of a signal that invokes a handler +If the process is woken up by delivery of a signal that invokes a handler function, and the handler function returns, then @code{sigsuspend} also returns. |