Subject: Re: SA_SIGINFO notes
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/11/2003 16:09:02
At 03:24 PM 10/11/2003, Paul Kranenburg wrote:
>btw. would it be Ok on signal delivery, to just copy the actually used
>portion of siginfo_t (i.e. what's currently ksiginfo_t) to the signal
>handler's stack instead of all of the 128 "future expansion" bytes?

It's what I do powerpc and vax.

>I can only see potential confusion if a program that's compiled using
>a future version of siginfo.h is run on an older kernel, which would
>be something that's inadvisable anyway.

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