Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:26:06 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More than 32 signals. Thought? Message-ID: <199908301826.MAA05144@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:17:24 %2B0200." <88584.936022644@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <88584.936022644@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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In message <88584.936022644@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sheldon Hearn writes: : : : > The Linux trick I like to add is to have sigset_t always be the last : > field in structures so that the impact of enlarging sigset_t is : > minimal. : : On LITTLE_ENDIAN machines? Endian shouldn't matter. An array at the end of a struct is going to grow that struct in identical ways... If the array index is defined sanely, then no one will notice if the lenght is passed in. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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