From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] signal interface: SIGINFO and sa_sigaction
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:40:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678205142@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678205139@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:28:42 +0100, SCHAN@uk.ibm.com said:
Sunny> But then the sa_sigaction function does require kernel to
Sunny> call the handler with parameters (struct siginfo_t), if I
Sunny> just patch the struct sigaction, will the other pieces of
Sunny> kernel signal handling routine render those parameters and
Sunny> pass it to the signal handler? - I am not an kernel expert,
Sunny> so information is really appericated!
The kernel _always_ passes siginfo and sigcontext as the second and
third arguments to a signal handler. sa_sigaction is just syntactic
sugar.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-15 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-14 16:04 [Linux-ia64] signal interface: SIGINFO and sa_sigaction SCHAN
2000-06-15 14:44 ` David Mosberger
2000-06-15 14:49 ` Jes Sorensen
2000-06-15 15:40 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2000-06-15 16:49 ` Ulrich Drepper
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