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From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@flurg.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] signalfd v2 - signalfd core ...
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:34:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F06528.7040506@argo.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703081113060.7515@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>

Davide Libenzi wrote:
> So, to cut it short, I can do the pseudo-siginfo read(2), but I don't 
> like it too much (little, actually). The siginfo, as bad as it is, is a 
> standard used in many POSIX APIs (hence even in kernel), and IMO if we 
> want to send that back, a struct siginfo should be.
>   

You can send the data in the 32/64 neutral format, and have glibc 
convert it to a siginfo, and everybody's happy.


-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-08 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-08  1:21 [patch 2/5] signalfd v2 - signalfd core Davide Libenzi
2007-03-08 14:31 ` David M. Lloyd
2007-03-08 15:45   ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-08 16:22     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-08 16:29       ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-08 16:40         ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-03-08 17:28           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-08 20:53             ` Michael K. Edwards
2007-03-30 23:24             ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-03-08 17:15         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-08 19:21           ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-08 19:27             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-08 19:33               ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-08 20:48               ` Marko Macek
2007-03-08 21:03               ` Marko Macek
2007-03-09 20:22               ` Kent Overstreet
2007-03-08 19:34             ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-03-08 19:40               ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-08 23:57       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-09  0:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-09 21:33   ` Davide Libenzi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-08 20:43 Oleg Nesterov
2007-03-08 21:12 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-08 21:56   ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-03-08 22:11     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-08 22:59       ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-08 23:05     ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-09  0:14       ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-03-09  1:16         ` Davide Libenzi

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