On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > 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. Ah, it's been changed again for 2.6.9-rc3 without a word of a comment, grrr... > > 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. OK for me. > You surely meant to change the mips-specific siginfo.h here. Thanks for spotting it. Here's an update just in case. Maciej glibc-2.3.3-20041018-mips-siginfo_sigchld-2.patch diff -up --recursive --new-file glibc-2.3.3-20041018.macro/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/bits/siginfo.h glibc-2.3.3-20041018/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/bits/siginfo.h --- glibc-2.3.3-20041018.macro/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/bits/siginfo.h Fri May 23 02:26:20 2003 +++ glibc-2.3.3-20041018/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/bits/siginfo.h Wed Nov 10 18:06:51 2004 @@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ typedef struct siginfo { __pid_t si_pid; /* Which child. */ __uid_t si_uid; /* Real user ID of sending process. */ - int si_status; /* Exit value or signal. */ __clock_t si_utime; + int si_status; /* Exit value or signal. */ __clock_t si_stime; } _sigchld;
