Re: [man-pages PATCH 2/5] s390_runtime_instr.2: document the removal of the second argument

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On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 9:21 AM, Heiko Carstens
<heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 08:41:39AM +0000, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 7:20 AM, Heiko Carstens
>> <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > @@ -85,6 +91,12 @@ The run-time instrumentation facility is available beginning with System z EC12.
>> >  Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call, use
>> >  .BR syscall (2)
>> >  to call it.
>> > +.PP
>> > +Support for signalling was removed with Linux 4.4. With Linux 4.4
>> > +also the check if
>> > +.IR signum
>> > +is a valid real-time signal was removed. For backwards compatibility with old
>> > +kernels it is recommended to pass a valid real-time signal number.
>> I would recommend passing 0 instead, as passing non-zero signal number
>> implies that the userspace process expects to receive this signal in
>> the future in case of aforementioned events, and this will not happen
>> on Linux 4.4 onwards.
>
> Passing 0 as signum is not backwards compatible, since that will result in
> an error with old kernels.
>
Oh, I see, sorry, for some reason I thought that passing 0 was
equivalent to the current behaviour (no signal is sent), but after
checking the code again I see that it is not the case.


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