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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/13] signal/timer/event fds v6 - signalfd core ...
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:50:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703172250.08128.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703172235.09227.arnd@arndb.de>
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 <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-17 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-16 0:22 Davide Libenzi
2007-03-17 21:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-03-17 21:50 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-03-18 4:56 ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-03-18 20:31 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-18 23:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-03-19 0:22 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-19 17:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-19 18:53 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-19 19:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-19 19:11 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-19 20:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-03-19 22:33 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-19 22:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-03-19 23:28 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-03-19 23:34 ` Davide Libenzi
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