Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:27:36 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: si_band type |
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Hi,
On 22 Feb 2000 15:54:11 -0800, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> said:
> The type of the si_band (more correctly: _sifields._sigpoll._fd) field in > include/asm-*/siginfo.h
> is wrong. It should be `long', not `int'. We can easily change it > for 32-bit architectures, but what to do for 64bit? If nobody is > using it (is it possible at all?) we can probably just do it without > disturbing anybody.
It is already in use by the F_SETSIG FASYNC code in 2.3. Worse, the "_fd" member which follows it is also in use, even on 2.2.
si_band isn't in use in 2.2 to my knowledge, so we could conceivably move it after the si_fd member and replace the old si_band with padding, but is this really any better than leaving si_band as an int?
--Stephen
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