From: Elad Lahav <e2lahav@gmail.com>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Signal handler arguments
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:00:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B6567A.9090703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B543AF.4090902@users.sourceforge.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Elad Lahav <elad_lahav@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:54:26 -0400
>
>>> Yes it says ucontext_t and sparc is the lone-wolf out here.
>> It's not a lone wolf, it's a misguided one.
>
> Well, whatever it is it can't be changed without breaking
> everything out there
Do you mean breaking all the applications that use the third parameter
as a sigcontext structure? Can you point to any? Remember that this is
an undocumented deviation from the POSIX standard, unique to
Linux/Sparc. Somehow I have a feeling that very few programs are aware
of this feature and are using it.
> if that's what you are suggesting happen.
I suggested that this deviation should be either changed *or* documented.
--Elad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-10 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-09 16:28 Signal handler arguments Elad Lahav
2009-03-10 0:06 ` David Miller
2009-03-10 2:54 ` Elad Lahav
2009-03-10 3:39 ` David Miller
2009-03-10 12:00 ` Elad Lahav [this message]
2009-03-10 12:17 ` David Miller
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