Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Mar 2007 16:10:37 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/5] signalfd v2 - signalfd core ... |
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > 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.
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