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AC_FUNC_SETPGRP: Don’t depend on the return type of setpgrp.
AC_FUNC_SETPGRP determines whether you have the historic BSD setpgrp,
which takes two arguments and returns int, or the historic POSIX
setpgrp, which takes no arguments and returns int.  Solaris has yet a
third variant, which takes no arguments and returns a pid_t (the new
process group ID).  This difference causes AC_FUNC_SETPGRP’s test
program to fail to compile under AC_LANG([C++]), which in turn causes
the macro to report that setpgrp does take arguments, which is wrong.

It is not worth adding a new result #define for this variant,
since *all* forms of setpgrp are deprecated in favor of setpgid, which
is old enough that it can be used unconditionally.  However, it is
worth documenting that this variant exists, and fixing AC_FUNC_SETPGRP
to produce the right value for its existing result #define on Solaris
with C++.

* lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_SETPGRP): Redesign test program to
  not depend on the return type of setpgrp.
* doc/autoconf.texi (AC_FUNC_SETPGRP): Mention that the macro does not
  check for the Solaris variant of setpgrp that returns pid_t.  Change
  programming advice to recommend use of setpgid.
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lib AC_FUNC_SETPGRP: Don’t depend on the return type of setpgrp. 2020-11-30 11:45:25 -05:00
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AUTHORS maint: make update-copyright 2020-01-01 11:45:50 -08:00
BUGS BUGS: Remove mention of old shells lacking functions. 2020-08-28 16:44:59 -04:00
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ChangeLog.3 maint: update URLs 2017-09-23 12:49:23 -07:00
configure.ac Add NetBSD /bin/sh to the -n whitelist. 2020-08-26 15:08:26 -04:00
COPYING Update links in COPYING, COPYINGv3, and COPYING.EXCEPTION. 2020-07-10 16:43:22 -04:00
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COPYINGv3 Update links in COPYING, COPYINGv3, and COPYING.EXCEPTION. 2020-07-10 16:43:22 -04:00
GNUmakefile Partially revert e54e3f90: restore use of $(MAKE) in error message. 2020-08-04 08:46:59 -04:00
HACKING Update release advice 2020-06-29 17:08:27 -07:00
maint.mk sc_error_message_uppercase: allow fully uppercased words 2020-11-30 11:45:25 -05:00
Makefile.am Generate manpages directly from source code. 2020-08-21 16:23:32 -04:00
NEWS AS_IF: Handle else clause being empty after macro expansion (#110369) 2020-11-15 14:16:16 -05:00
README maint: make update-copyright 2020-01-01 11:45:50 -08:00
README-alpha maint: make update-copyright 2020-01-01 11:45:50 -08:00
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THANKS maint: make update-copyright 2020-01-01 11:45:50 -08:00
TODO * TODO: Add -Werror support. 2020-08-06 12:28:40 -07:00

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