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diff --git a/manual/signal.texi b/manual/signal.texi index 000bcb9069..95e7a363c0 100644 --- a/manual/signal.texi +++ b/manual/signal.texi @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ When a signal terminates a process, its parent process can determine the cause of termination by examining the termination status code reported by the @code{wait} or @code{waitpid} functions. (This is discussed in more detail in @ref{Process Completion}.) The information it can get -includes the fact that termination was due to a signal, and the kind of +includes the fact that termination was due to a signal and the kind of signal involved. If a program you run from a shell is terminated by a signal, the shell typically prints some kind of error message. @@ -1040,15 +1040,15 @@ a handler for @code{SIGKILL} or @code{SIGSTOP}. @end table @end deftypefun -@strong{Compatibility Note:} A problem when working with the -@code{signal} function is that it has a different semantic on BSD and -SVID system. The difference is that on SVID systems the signal handler -is deinstalled after an signal was delivered. On BSD systems the +@strong{Compatibility Note:} A problem encountered when working with the +@code{signal} function is that it has different semantics on BSD and +SVID systems. The difference is that on SVID systems the signal handler +is deinstalled after signal delivery. On BSD systems the handler must be explicitly deinstalled. In the GNU C Library we use the BSD version by default. To use the SVID version you can either use the function @code{sysv_signal} (see below) or use the @code{_XOPEN_SOURCE} -feature select macro (@pxref{Feature Test Macros}). Generally it should -be avoided to use this functions due to the compatibility problems. It +feature select macro (@pxref{Feature Test Macros}). In general, use of these +functions should be avoided because of compatibility problems. It is better to use @code{sigaction} if it is available since the results are much more reliable. @@ -1082,7 +1082,7 @@ main (void) @end smallexample @noindent -Note how if a given signal was previously set to be ignored, this code +Note that if a given signal was previously set to be ignored, this code avoids altering that setting. This is because non-job-control shells often ignore certain signals when starting children, and it is important for the children to respect this. |