On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:36:47 -0700 Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Standard conforming signal handling in applications should use sig_atomic_t > for flags set by signal handler. > https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Atomic-Data-Access.html > > This is really just a fancy way of saying ''int'' but adds > to platform portablilty for DPDK. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> Apparently, this fails on some distros because signal.h ends up including some compatibility definitions that clash with the same definitions in the ixgbe testpmd base code. Since fixing either base code or the distro is a PIA not worth doing.
