Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 03:46:12 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.3.18: siginfo data available for all signals |
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Robert H. de Vries wrote: > The last few times I have sent in this patch I have received zero > reactions. On the other hand the patch does not seem to make it into > kernels. Something must be wrong, however I don't know what it is.
Did you miss Linus' announcement? He is on holiday for 2 weeks starting a couple of days ago. Patches will be discarded during that time.
> This patch handles all signals alike. Every signal is put into the signal > queue. Only real-time signals are queued multiple times. Other signals can > have only one siginfo in the queue. > > The patch also fixes some unitialized data being passed to user space > under some circumstances. When sending a signal using kill, the siginfo > structure on the stack was not zeroed.
In principle I approve, as long as it does not slow signal delivery. It was obviously intended to work this way all along. Sorry I haven't time to examine the code.
have nice day, -- Jamie
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