Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Hello, > > Since the following change: > > http://www.linux-mips.org/cvsweb/linux/include/asm-mips/siginfo.h.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.5&only_with_tag=MAIN > > dated back to Aug 1999 (!), the definitions of struct siginfo in Linux and > GNU libc differ to each other. Only 2.4 Kernels, 2.6 uses the normal definition again. > While it's the kernel that is at fault by > changing its ABI, at this stage it may be more acceptable to update glibc > as it's not the only program interfacing to Linux (uClibc?). It doesn't > seem to be a heavily used feature as otherwise someone else would have > noticed the problem during these five years. As I don't really have a > preference, hereby I provide two patches to choose from and ask for > voting. I prefer to bring the 2.4 kernel in line with the rest of the system. > The ChangeLog entry is for glibc, of course. > > 2004-11-10 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/bits/siginfo.h [struct siginfo] > (_sigchld): Update to match the kernel. > > Maciej > > glibc-2.3.3-20041018-mips-siginfo_sigchld-1.patch > diff -up --recursive --new-file glibc-2.3.3-20041018.macro/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/siginfo.h glibc-2.3.3-20041018/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/siginfo.h > --- glibc-2.3.3-20041018.macro/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/siginfo.h Tue Apr 22 02:26:04 2003 > +++ glibc-2.3.3-20041018/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/siginfo.h Wed Nov 10 16:52:24 2004 You surely meant to change the mips-specific siginfo.h here.
