Re: [PATCH] stdlib: work around MirBSD WEXITSTATUS bug

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Eric,

> address@hidden
> +Some platforms fail to provide @code{WEXITSTATUS} and friends:
> +MirBSD 10.

I find this problem description a bit ambiguous, therefore this follow-up
patch, to improve the wording.


2010-09-15  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        stdlib: clarify MirBSD WEXITSTATUS bug
        * lib/stdlib.in.h: Clarify the MirBSD bug regarding WEXITSTATUS.
        * doc/posix-headers/stdlib.texi (stdlib.h): Likewise.

--- doc/posix-headers/stdlib.texi.orig  Thu Sep 16 02:21:29 2010
+++ doc/posix-headers/stdlib.texi       Thu Sep 16 02:19:38 2010
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@
 NetBSD 5.0
 
 @item
-Some platforms fail to provide @code{WEXITSTATUS} and friends:
+The macros @code{WIFSIGNALED}, @code{WIFEXITED}, @code{WIFSTOPPED},
address@hidden, @code{WEXITSTATUS}, @code{WNOHANG}, @code{WUNTRACED},
address@hidden are not defined in this header file (only in
address@hidden<sys/wait.h>} on some platforms:
 MirBSD 10.
 @end itemize
 
--- lib/stdlib.in.h.orig        Thu Sep 16 02:21:29 2010
+++ lib/stdlib.in.h     Thu Sep 16 02:21:17 2010
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 /* NetBSD 5.0 mis-defines NULL.  */
 #include <stddef.h>
 
-/* MirBSD 10 fails to define WEXITSTATUS.  */
+/* MirBSD 10 defines WEXITSTATUS in <sys/wait.h>, not in <stdlib.h>.  */
 #ifndef WEXITSTATUS
 # include <sys/wait.h>
 #endif