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SubjectRe: [patch 2/5] signalfd v2 - signalfd core ...


On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
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> The difficulty is that there are 4 different formats of signal structure
> you could get: (traditional|siginfo) x (32bit|64bit).

See my suggestion of a fixed-format (and much cleaned up) pseudo-siginfo
thing earlier in this thread, and also actually mentioned as a "good to
do" in my original email from 2003 that did the original patch ;)

> (Hey, can you send signals by writing into the signalfd? Very plan9...)

It's an obvious extension. Whether there is any real point to it or not, I
dunno. After all, you could just send the signal instead.

Linus
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