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SubjectRe: sizeof (siginfo_t) problem
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:08:19AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 04:32:54 +1000 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
> > > I am not sure if the s390 fix is correct (since s390x has been merged) or
> > > if x86_64 needs this (as I cannot remember the alignment needs of the
> > > x86_64 compiler - though I suspect it is needed).
> >
> > I didnt follow this thread very carefully :) Is ppc64 broken?
>
> It is broken subtly (but noone would probably notice :-)). It is OK
> on the structure size, but copy_siginfo will copy sizeof(int) bytes less
> than necessary sometimes (particularly in the case of a SIGCHILD).

Maybe it'd be a good idea to copy the architecture maintainers. I'm
certainly deleting a couple of thousand lkml mails at the moment, so
its pretty lucky that I just read Anton's message.

Is ARM broken?

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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