From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Elad Lahav Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:00:58 +0000 Subject: Re: Signal handler arguments Message-Id: <49B6567A.9090703@gmail.com> List-Id: References: <49B543AF.4090902@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <49B543AF.4090902@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > From: Elad Lahav > 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