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Re: Fix struct siginfo
- To: Chris Wing <wingc at engin dot umich dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Fix struct siginfo
- From: Jes Sorensen <Jes dot Sorensen at cern dot ch>
- Date: 19 Jan 2000 19:48:30 +0100
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, linux-kernel at vger dot rutgers dot edu, schwab at suse dot de
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001190930440.6307-100000@shaft.engin.umich.edu>
>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Wing <wingc@engin.umich.edu> writes:
Chris> On the bright side, if we change it now, every program using
Chris> glibc will work properly on i386, there will be less overhead
Chris> in the signal code (good because real-time signals should be
Chris> FAST), and the only platform that will require recompiles is
Chris> m68k.
Which is not like a new platform.
I am overly behind on the m68k at the moment, so I am not quite sure
of the impact of this, but if you end up breaking normal signal
handling on the m68k I must admit I am going to get more than a little
pissy ;-)
Andreas?
Jes