linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/13] signal/timer/event fds v6

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Message-Id: <200703172250.08128.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:50:07 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/13] signal/timer/event fds v6 - signalfd core ...

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.

	Arnd <><
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