All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>, Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] linux-user/signal.c: define __SIGRTMIN/MAX for non-GNU platforms
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:48:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53918E71.2040901@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140606082705.GA28984@afflict.kos.to>

Il 06/06/2014 10:27, Riku Voipio ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 09:49:00AM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
>> The __SIGRTMIN and __SIGRTMAX are glibc internals and are not available
>> on all platforms, so we define those if they are missing. We also check
>> that those corresponds with the posix variables SIGRTMIN/SIGRTMAX which
>> may only be available during runtime.
>>
>> This is needed for musl libc.
>
> After all, the idea of asserts doesn't work on glibc it seems:
>
> qemu-arm qemu-smoke/armel/busybox ls -ld .
> qemu-arm: linux-user/signal.c:393: signal_init: Assertion `32 == (__libc_current_sigrtmin ())' failed.
> Aborted
>
> Quick test on my amd64/glibc 2.18 system:
>
> printf("RTMIN: %d RTMAX: %d\n", SIGRTMIN, SIGRTMAX);
> RTMIN: 34 RTMAX: 64
>
> While: /usr/include/bits/signum.h
> #define __SIGRTMIN  32

That's because glibc reserves two signals (one for cancellation, the 
other to implement set*id system calls).  Basically you'd need to extend 
the hack of host_to_target_signal_table to all signals in the 
[__SIGRTMIN, SIGRTMIN) range, computing the table at run-time.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-06  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1398781051-16207-1-git-send-email-ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
     [not found] ` <1398781051-16207-6-git-send-email-ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
     [not found]   ` <535FB70D.5070304@redhat.com>
     [not found]     ` <20140429165358.45c092a0@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org>
     [not found]       ` <535FBEF5.5070001@redhat.com>
     [not found]         ` <20140429220631.732ed7c3@ncopa-laptop>
2014-05-02 12:43           ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] linux-user/signal.c: define __SIGRTMIN/MAX for non-GNU platforms Riku Voipio
2014-06-04  7:49             ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] " Natanael Copa
2014-06-06  8:27               ` Riku Voipio
2014-06-06  9:48                 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-05-02 13:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] fix building with musl libc Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-03 23:37 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-04  5:56   ` Natanael Copa

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=53918E71.2040901@redhat.com \
    --to=pbonzini@redhat.com \
    --cc=ncopa@alpinelinux.org \
    --cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
    --cc=riku.voipio@iki.fi \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.