From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Jon Burgess <Jon_Burgess@eur.3com.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Struct sigaction cleanup
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:09:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030310150903.A28104@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80256CE5.00390ADA.00@notesmta.eur.3com.com>; from Jon_Burgess@eur.3com.com on Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:22:56AM +0000
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:22:56AM +0000, Jon Burgess wrote:
> > Further no known libc implementation making use of sa_restorer.
>
> I don't know if this is relevant, but Linus recently tried
> changing the sa_restorer behaviour in the linux-2.5 kernel and
> later had to back out the change. The following lines are from
> recent changelogs:
>
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0301.1/0344.html
> Linux-2.5.55:
> Move x86 signal handler return stub to the vsyscall page, and stop
> honoring the SA_RESTORER information.
>
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0301.1/1884.html
> Linux-2.5.57:
> Re-instate the SA_RESTORER functionality, since it seems that some
> programs still depend on it and in fact do install a different
> signal restorer than the standard kernel version.
Doesn't look relevant to us because installing requires custom assembler
code for each architecture or other non-portable constructs. It seems
nothing on MIPS was ever actually using sa_restorer or SA_RESTORER.
Ralf
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2003-03-10 10:22 Struct sigaction cleanup Jon Burgess
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