Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.3.18: siginfo data available for all signals | Date | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:48:15 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Is it? I can see a single memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info)); there (2.3.18ac4).
sys_kill.
> There are tens of similar places around the kernel (even in signal.c). > I was planning to fix this once his patch goes in (some weeks ago I've even > sent a patch to l-k).
Ok I didnt see that
> IMHO the latter has advantages in speeding things up (because you will > eliminate most of the 128byte memsets and e.g. copy only 5 32bit words > instead of 128 bytes to userland).
Agreed.
> It makes a lot of sense to use siginfo_t for passing stuff like segfault > address, segfault reason and the like and other Unices do it that way. > What's so odd about that?
Ok. Now I follow the intent of that. Yes it does make sense
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