Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> writes:
|> Jakub Jelinek wrote:
|> > When siginfo_t was added, the intent obviously was that its size
|> > be 128 bytes on all arches.
|> >
|> > The kernel unfortunately does this right on sparc64 and alpha from 64-bit
|> > arches only; ia64, s390x, ppc64 etc. got it wrong.
|>
|> That's not the only siginfo_t problem:
|>
|> - Take a look at the placement of the _uid32 field on m68k.
|> It varies from sub-structure to sub-structure - yet it is
|> always written to the same offset by the kernel. Borken!
It should probably use the one from asm-generic as well. I could not
find anything that actually uses that field.
Andreas.
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