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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: sizeof (siginfo_t) problem
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:02:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jewueldud9.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030714135540.GB26002@mail.jlokier.co.uk> (Jamie Lokier's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:55:40 +0100")

Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> writes:

|> Jakub Jelinek wrote:
|> > When siginfo_t was added, the intent obviously was that its size
|> > be 128 bytes on all arches.
|> > 
|> > The kernel unfortunately does this right on sparc64 and alpha from 64-bit
|> > arches only; ia64, s390x, ppc64 etc. got it wrong.
|> 
|> That's not the only siginfo_t problem:
|> 
|> 	- Take a look at the placement of the _uid32 field on m68k.
|> 	  It varies from sub-structure to sub-structure - yet it is
|> 	  always written to the same offset by the kernel.  Borken!

It should probably use the one from asm-generic as well.  I could not
find anything that actually uses that field.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-14 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-14 12:40 sizeof (siginfo_t) problem Jakub Jelinek
2003-07-14 13:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 15:02   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2003-07-14 15:48 ` David Mosberger
2003-07-14 15:57   ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-07-14 16:52 ` Stephen Rothwell
2003-07-14 17:00   ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-07-14 17:11     ` Stephen Rothwell
2003-07-14 17:14       ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-07-14 17:25         ` Stephen Rothwell
2003-07-14 17:45           ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-07-19 18:32   ` Anton Blanchard
2003-07-21  0:08     ` Stephen Rothwell
2003-07-22 13:42       ` Russell King
2003-07-22 13:57         ` Stephen Rothwell
2003-07-14 18:31 Ulrich Weigand
2003-07-14 18:35 ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-07-14 18:52 Ulrich Weigand
2003-07-15 11:58 Martin Schwidefsky

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