Re: Rethinking sigcontext's xfeatures slightly for PKRU's benefit?

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/18/2015 12:49 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> IOW, I like my idea in which signal delivery always sets PKRU to the
> application-requested-by-syscall values and sigreturn restores it.
> Kinda like sigaltstack, but applies to all signals and affects PKRU
> instead of RSP.
> 

I think this is the only sensible option, with the default being all zero.

	-hpa


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