Re: SPARC and SA_SIGINFO signal handling

Christophe Rhodes (csr21@cam.ac.uk)
Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:33:18 +0000


On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 03:54:22PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 11:59:00 -0800
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:11:31AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > The "register contents and so on" are in the sigcontext.
> > We don't use ucontext on sparc32.
>
> In other words, you don't support SA_SIGINFO at all.
>
> Is it required? All the information that thing provides is
> determinable via other methods.

Sorry for the late response (I've been away); "required" is perhaps
putting it strongly, because as you say the information is there,
somewhere. However, it would be nice to have, as standardized, that
the third argument to the sa_sigaction handler be castable to a
ucontext_t, as this would make porting signal-handling code between
Linux flavours much easier.

Cheers,

Christophe

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