netdev - Re: [PATCH 02/18] flag parameters: paccept

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 08 May 2008 15:58:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roland@...hat.com
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, drepper@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davidel@...ilserver.org, mtk.manpages@...il.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, oleg@...sign.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] flag parameters: paccept

From: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Date: Thu,  8 May 2008 15:50:43 -0700 (PDT)

> It's now spelled:
> 
>        set_restore_sigmask();
> 
> For the other syscalls that depend on this (e.g. sys_ppoll),
> we just put the whole definition in #ifdef HAVE_SET_RESTORE_SIGMASK.
> 
> The few machines that don't have RESTORE_SIGMASK support of some flavor,
> also have not assigned numbers to the syscalls that need it.

I notice that this macro also sets the sigpending bit, although
some paths that end up calling set_restore_sigmask() already
do that.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html