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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:57:40 -0400
From: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
To: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Futex Generalization Patch
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 12:22:59PM -0400, Hubertus Franke wrote:
> typedef struct siginfo {
>    ...
>         union {
>                 int _pad[SI_PAD_SIZE];
>  
>                 struct {
>                         ...
>                 } _kill;
>  ...
> 
> I'd suggest we tag along the _sigfault semantics.
> We don't need to know who woke us up, just which <addr> got signalled.
> 

Is there issues with creating a new struct in the union that represents
exactly what you wish it to represent?

mark

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