> On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 "Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@ibm.net> wrote:
>
> > Any and all applications using signals now require editing to compile
> > against recent 2.1.x kernels. Is this really what was intended, or is
> > there a complimentary change which must occur in one's header files?
>
> This is not so. Check your header files. The kernel change should not
> show up in user-mode applications. There is/was a byte-endian thing that
> showed up in user-land in kernel 2.1.7[01?], but that was squashed.
> Somehow your user apps are using kernel headers.
>
> > [..] I am running linux libc-5.4.33 [...]
>
> I'm running 5.4.38 with no problems.
>
> This list gets real silent when you report imaginary problems.
As you point out in a later message, libc-5.4.x headers are dependant upon
the kernel headers. If your 5.4.x installation does _not_ rely upon the
kernel headers, can you elaborate exactly where in user-land the signal
structures and calls are defined?
Steve