Re: Generic compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo

Kyle McMartin
2006-11-01T14:24:17Z

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:23:52PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> It will be fine. Neither of the passed ints have valid negative values.
> The original comment was overly zealous.
>
> However it would be nice to not have "32" in the names of gerneic compat
> functions i.e. call it copy_compat_siginfo_from_user or
> get_compat_siginfo.
>

This was for parity with copy_siginfo_to_user32. Once I replace both of
those on all arches but ia64 with a generic one (ia64 seems to be the only
arch with a different struct siginfo.) I will rename them to
compat_copy_siginfo_(to|from)_user, which seems to be the convention.

Cheers,
Kyle M.