Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:42:18 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: sizeof (siginfo_t) problem |
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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?
-- 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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