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

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Message-Id: <20070318155615.e2504034.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:56:15 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	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 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:35:08 +0100 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> sizeof(sigset_t) may be different for native and 32-bit compat code.
> It would be good if you could handle sizemask==4 && sizeof(sigset_t)==8
> in this code, so that there is no need for an extra compat_sys_signalfd
> function.

We still need a compat function to get the bit layout and the wordlayout
correct in the sigset.

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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