strsignal(3) does not exist on HP-UX

[michael-o]

BPO	34412
Nosy	@berkerpeksag, @michael-o
PRs	bpo-34412: strsignal(3) does not exist on HP-UX #8786

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closed_at = <Date 2018-08-23.13:28:07.235>
created_at = <Date 2018-08-16.14:47:52.153>
labels = ['3.8', 'build', 'library']
title = 'strsignal(3) does not exist on HP-UX'
updated_at = <Date 2018-08-23.13:28:07.234>
user = 'https://github.com/michael-o'

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type = 'compile error'
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[michael-o]

HP-UX does not provide any mappings from signals to strings. The proper approach is to map just like for Windows. Alternatively, one could simply return the singal as an int.

[michael-o]

References:

• strsignal() function is on available on HP-UX IA64 v3 google/cmockery#11
• https://www.spinics.net/lists/dash/msg00547.html

[berkerpeksag]

New changeset 48ce489 by Berker Peksag (Michael Osipov) in branch 'master':
bpo-34412: Make signal.strsignal() work on HP-UX (GH-8786)
48ce489