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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-03-11 05:02:31 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-03-11 05:02:31 +0000
commitfe835c13d60b858dba6378a981af7e67eebe031e (patch)
tree8750e2ab2a15879c176324604e8a70f60dbca837 /lib/libc/gen
parent2b7e8786fb3995460df7de9ab0f010996e81bb22 (diff)
mdoc police.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/signal.39
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/signal.3 b/lib/libc/gen/signal.3
index 190f5ae85fa..30894d37237 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/signal.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/signal.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: signal.3,v 1.14 2001/01/17 19:20:02 deraadt Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: signal.3,v 1.15 2001/03/11 05:02:29 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -313,10 +313,11 @@ Extension Interfaces:
.Fn strlcat .
.Pp
All functions not in the above lists are considered to be unsafe
-with respect to signals. That is to say, the behaviour of such
-functions when called from a signal handler is undefined.
+with respect to signals.
+That is to say, the behaviour of such functions when called from a
+signal handler is undefined.
In general though, signal handlers should do little more than set a
-flag; most other actions are not safe.
+flag; most other actions are not safe.
.Pp
As well, inside the signal handler it is also considered more safe to
make a copy the global variable