Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/13] signal/timer/event fds v6 - signalfd core ... | Date | Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:50:07 +0100 |
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On Saturday 17 March 2007 22:35:08 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Also, what's the reasoning behind defining a new structure > instead of just returning siginfo_t? Sure siginfo_t is ugly > but it is a well-defined structure and users already deal > with the problems it causes.
Ok, found the answer myself, fops->read() must not do the conversion to compat_siginfo_t on a 64 bit kernel, that would just be too ugly for words.
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