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SubjectRe: siginfo_t fracturing, especially for 64/32-bit compatibility mode
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:07:26AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 19:44:06 -0500
> Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:24:33AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > rt_sigqueueinfo(2) subverts this by reserving a range of si_code
> > > > values for users, and there is nothing about them to indicate to the
> > > > kernel which fields of siginfo_t are actually in use. This is not a
> > >
> > > My understanding was that the syscall always only supports si_int/si_ptr.
> >
> > No, why?
>
> Because otherwise it cannot be supported in the 32bit emulation. Or rather you
> won't get any conversion.

That's probably an acceptable limitation I think what the OP pointed
out is that they _are_ converted, from 32-bit to 64-bit, when a 32-bit
process sends a siginfo to another 32-bit process, thereby garbling it.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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