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Date:	Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:42:37 -0800 (PST)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ...

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Then, of course, you have to think about how to get the siginfo_t out to
> the user process.  Do you just return it from the read after the read
> that returns the signal number?  If so, you need to know if the process
> did a compat read syscall read or a normal one ...

It can be a read(2) of a structure that does not need compat. It must be 
that way, because compat-on-read are out of question.



- Davide


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