linux-kernel - Re: compliation error with aio

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Message-ID: <20180717125829.GA12368@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:58:29 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-aio@...ck.org
Subject: Re: compliation error with aio_abi.h

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 09:40:19AM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> This looks like the structure that was introduced with 7a074e96dee6
> ("aio: implement io_pgetevents") . is #include <linux/signal.h>
> the correct header? This breaks compilation of nginx
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1597674

As far as the kernel is concerned it is the right header, but the
glibc side of signals is a mess.  I've thus submitted the fix below
to avoid exposing the signal bits at all:

https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=153131732618217&w=2