signalblocking.m4   [plain text]


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# Determine available signal blocking primitives. Three different APIs exist:
# 1) POSIX: sigemptyset, sigaddset, sigprocmask
# 2) SYSV: sighold, sigrelse
# 3) BSD: sigblock, sigsetmask
# For simplicity, here we check only for the POSIX signal blocking.
AC_DEFUN([gt_SIGNALBLOCKING],
[
  signals_not_posix=
  AC_EGREP_HEADER(sigset_t, signal.h, , signals_not_posix=1)
  if test -z "$signals_not_posix"; then
    AC_CHECK_FUNC(sigprocmask,
      AC_DEFINE(HAVE_POSIX_SIGNALBLOCKING, 1,
       [Define to 1 if you have the sigset_t type and the sigprocmask function.]))
  fi
])