Guardian Programming Reference Summary for pTAL and TAL

Procedure Calls Summary (R-Z)

Guardian Programming Reference Summary for pTAL and TAL—522631-001

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SHIFTSTRING

(Superseded by STRING_UPSHIFT_) Puts all the alphabetic characters in a string in

lowercase or uppercase. Nonalphabetic characters remain unchanged.

SIGACTION_

Is the pTAL procedure name for the C sigaction() function.

See the $SYSTEM.SYSTEM.HSIGNAL header file for the pTAL prototype definitions.

For a discussion of each parameter and procedure considerations, see the

sigaction(2) function reference page either online or in the Open System Services

System Calls Reference Manual.

SIGACTION_INIT_

Establishes the caller’s initial state of signal handling if default handling is not desired.

CALL SHIFTSTRING ( string ,count ,casebit );

string, STRING:ref:* input, output

count, INT:value input

casebit, INT:value input

<15> = 0 Puts the specified string in uppercase.

= 1 Puts the specified string in lowercase.

Note. This procedure can be called only from TNS/R native processes.

?SOURCE $SYSTEM.SYSTEM.HTDMSIG

error := SIGACTION_INIT_ ( handler );

error (INT32) returned value

0D Indicates a successful outcome.

-1D Indicates an error. The reason for the error is given in the errno variable. Use the

ERRNO_GET_ procedure to obtain the value of errno in a pTAL program.