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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: waitid fallout
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:19:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040915061927.GA1683@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409150534.i8F5YeCF011453@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:34:40PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Ah, I only ever looked at the sizes on i386, where there was plenty of
> room.  As you can see in my posts of the waitid patches, the si_rusage
> addition is not required by POSIX.

I eventually found them (I heart google).  This idea makes a lot of
sense, particularly if rusage had fit everywhere.

> If we were to take it back out, then it would make more sense to have
> the system call be like SGI's waitsys that takes the waitid args plus
> a struct rusage *.  

This solution would make me happy.


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-15  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-15  3:39 waitid fallout Richard Henderson
2004-09-15  4:37 ` Stephen Rothwell
2004-09-15  5:34   ` Roland McGrath
2004-09-15  6:19     ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2004-09-18 13:03     ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-09-20 21:26       ` Roland McGrath
2004-09-20 21:27       ` Roland McGrath
2004-09-15  4:49 ` Richard Henderson
2004-09-15  6:23 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-16  1:30 ` [PATCH] back out siginfo_t.si_rusage from waitid changes Roland McGrath

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