Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 17:55:59 +0300 (EET DST) From: Jukka Ukkonen <jau@jau.csc.fi> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@freebsd.com Subject: Re: POSIX.4 signals + other POSIX.4 stuff to FreeBSD... Message-ID: <199606281456.RAA22755@jau.csc.fi> In-Reply-To: <199606271240.WAA10241@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 27, 96 10:40:19 pm
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Quoting Bruce Evans: > > > containing such an array. I have now more or less figured out > > all these code fragments within the kernel itself, but it seems > > that also the Linux application binary interface etc. LKMs have > > More importantly, the size of a sigset_t is appart of the BSD binary > interface. The kernel would have to support variably-sized sigset_t's > to support old binaries :-(. There is no such thing as a variably-sized > struct, and the current sigset_t doesn't encode its size, this isn't > easy. Yes, I know. The old interface would have to remain for all those programs that have been compiled and linked with the old version. Cheers, // jau ------ / Jukka A. Ukkonen, FUNET / Centre for Scientific Computing /__ M.Sc. (sw-eng & cs) Tel: (Home&Fax) +358-0-6215280 / Internet: ukkonen@csc.fi (Work) +358-0-4573208 v Internet: jau@funet.fi (Mobile) +358-400-606671
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