strsignal.3: Note that starting with v2.32, glibc no longer exports 'sys_siglist'

Reported-by: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man3/strsignal.3 b/man3/strsignal.3
index 465e1dc0bcbb7966656f222409b768d03c8013d0..872c50910fcd154883ebe9d7d3348b1431f51c4f 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/strsignal.3
+++ b/man3/strsignal.3
@@ -72,13 +72,13 @@ number passed in the argument
 The string can be used only until the next call to
 .BR strsignal ().
 .PP
-The array
+The (deprecated) array
 .I sys_siglist
 holds the signal description strings
 indexed by signal number.
 The
 .BR strsignal ()
-function should be used instead of this array.
+function should be used instead of this array; see also VERSIONS.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 The
 .BR strsignal ()
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ function returns the appropriate description
 string, or an unknown signal message if the signal number is invalid.
 On some systems (but not on Linux), NULL may instead be
 returned for an invalid signal number.
+.SH VERSIONS
+Starting with version 2.32,
+.\" glibc commit b1ccfc061feee9ce616444ded8e1cd5acf9fa97f
+the
+.I sys_siglist
+symbol is no longer exported by glibc.
 .SH ATTRIBUTES
 For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
 .BR attributes (7).