From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:40:07 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] signal interface: SIGINFO and sa_sigaction Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> 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