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From: Hubertus Franke <frankeh@watson.ibm.com>
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To: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Futex Generalization Patch
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:46:24 -0400
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On Monday 15 April 2002 04:57 pm, Mark Mielke wrote:
> 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

No, but then again there seems to be no need either.
All we need is the <addr> that is to be woken up, which
carries similarity to a SEGV signal handler.

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-- Hubertus Franke  (frankeh@watson.ibm.com)
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