Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:57:55 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: personality.h: struct map_segment
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:57:24PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> However, as best as I can tell, struct map_segment is never defined.
> I've grepped 2.4 and 2.5, and googled to no avail.  I'm just curious, is
> this simply unimplemented functionality?  And what is it ultimately
> supposed to do?

It's used in the linux-abi modules to map between constants of foreign
OSes to the Linux native ones, e.g. for error numbers, signal numbers
and whatever.  It probably does not have much business beeing in mainline
personality.h..

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