Subject: Re: Kernel
To: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/24/1998 14:46:56
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 17:31:12 -0400
Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> In message <199809242050.NAA24934@pdxcs204.pdx.intel.com>,Colin Wood writes:
> >The problem is that the libc signal stuff broke shortly before this was
> >fixed, so we haven't had a working snapshot built in a couple of weeks :-(
>
> i took a look at this yesterday and today and i have a diff that will
> produce a running kernel with current sources (as of yesterday).
>
> it runs fine for 99% of things, the only exception being using 'suspend'
> with su. (this leads me to suspect an error in my compat_13_sys_sigreturn()
> not restoring the signal mask correctly)
This will not work for a GREAT many thing... you are going to lose at the
very least with anything that uses setjmp/longjmp.
The sigreturn system call on the m68k needs serious help, given how it
is invoked.
Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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