Re: [PATCH]: Fix N32 sigsuspend syscall that causes non-fatal oopses

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On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 07:17:41PM +0000, Kumba wrote:
> Fix to the sigsuspend syscall so N32 userlands work without triggering
> non-fatal oopses.  Patch was originally drafted by Daniel Jacobwitz.
> 
> Problem was originally discovered via a configure test in the glib
> package.  When run, the test triggered a segmentation fault and an
> oops, as well as causing the test, and ultimately, configure, to fail.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Kinard <kumba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  linux32.c     |   19 -------------------
>  scall64-n32.S |    4 ++--
>  signal.c      |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

If you're going to mess around with sigsuspend, there's a better option
now: take a look at the recently added TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK (committed
last week).

Everyone really should migrate over to that approach; it fixes (among
other things) a nasty debugging corner case and some code duplication.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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