From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751831AbXCQVtc (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:49:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751835AbXCQVtc (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:49:32 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:65129 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751831AbXCQVtb (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:49:31 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Davide Libenzi Subject: Re: [patch 2/13] signal/timer/event fds v6 - signalfd core ... Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:50:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Oleg Nesterov References: <200703172235.09227.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <200703172235.09227.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703172250.08128.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+uc8TYq5hJ1xYWgPhx3tpfcSDxkNy0kh+BHqE 2QghYWLwsZSDYciXRlsp+DnNgiwBq74wvKZpcjB94EolxSErHj RIBVCc26L/zmRlT4FIY7A== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 17 March 2007 22:35:08 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Also, what's the reasoning behind defining a new structure > instead of just returning siginfo_t? Sure siginfo_t is ugly > but it is a well-defined structure and users already deal > with the problems it causes. Ok, found the answer myself, fops->read() must not do the conversion to compat_siginfo_t on a 64 bit kernel, that would just be too ugly for words. Arnd <><