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Message-ID: <20260403092911.4336-4-contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Fri,  3 Apr 2026 11:29:11 +0200
From: contact@...ktivis.me
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" <contact@...ktivis.me>
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/3] signal: add str2sig(3) from POSIX.1-2024

From: "Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" <contact@...ktivis.me>

---
 include/signal.h     |  1 +
 src/signal/str2sig.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/signal/str2sig.c

diff --git a/include/signal.h b/include/signal.h
index c997cb08..c5e925bd 100644
--- a/include/signal.h
+++ b/include/signal.h
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ void psignal(int, const char *);
 // Bumped to 13 to be safe if a case like "SIGRTMIN+nnn" happens
 #define SIG2STR_MAX 13
 int sig2str(int, char *);
+int str2sig(const char *__restrict, int *__restrict);
 
 #endif
 
diff --git a/src/signal/str2sig.c b/src/signal/str2sig.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..53ef3cc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/signal/str2sig.c
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
+
+int str2sig(const char *restrict str, int *restrict pnum)
+{
+	if (str[0] == '\0') return -1;
+
+	if (isdigit(str[0]))
+	{
+		char *end = NULL;
+		unsigned long signum = strtoul(str, &end, 10);
+
+		if (end != NULL && *end != '\0')
+			return -1;
+
+		if (signum > 0 && signum <= SIGRTMAX)
+			return (*pnum = signum, 0);
+
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	if (strnlen(str, sizeof *__sys_signame) <= sizeof *__sys_signame)
+		for (int i = 0; i < sizeof __sys_signame/sizeof *__sys_signame; i++)
+			if (strncmp(str, __sys_signame[i], sizeof *__sys_signame) == 0)
+				return (*pnum = i+1, 0);
+
+	// signal aliases
+	if (strcmp(str, "IOT") == 0)
+		return (*pnum = SIGIOT, 0);
+	if (strcmp(str, "UNUSED") == 0)
+		return (*pnum = SIGUNUSED, 0);
+#if SIGPOLL == SIGIO
+	if (strcmp(str, "POLL") == 0)
+		return (*pnum = SIGPOLL, 0);
+#endif
+
+	if (strcmp(str, "RTMIN") == 0)
+		return (*pnum = SIGRTMIN, 0);
+	if (strcmp(str, "RTMAX") == 0)
+		return (*pnum = SIGRTMAX, 0);
+
+	if (memcmp(str, "RTMIN+", 6) == 0 || memcmp(str, "RTMAX-", 6) == 0)
+	{
+		char *end = NULL;
+		errno = 0;
+		unsigned long sigrt = strtoul(str+6, &end, 10);
+
+		if (errno != 0 || (end != NULL && *end != '\0'))
+			return -1;
+
+		sigrt = str[5] == '+' ? SIGRTMIN+sigrt : SIGRTMAX-sigrt;
+
+		if (sigrt >= SIGRTMIN && sigrt <= SIGRTMAX)
+			return (*pnum = sigrt, 0);
+
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	return -1;
+}
-- 
2.52.0

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