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.

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