Re: [PATCH] Have sigpoll and sigio band field match glibc for n64

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On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:24:24PM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:46:25PM -0500, Peter Watkins wrote:
> 
> > The siginfo field si_fd is incorrect on n64 because the band field does
> > not match glibc.
> 
> Susv3 says:
> 
> [...]
> The <signal.h> header shall define the siginfo_t type as a structure that
> includes at least the following members:
> 
> [...]
> long          si_band   Band event for SIGPOLL. 
> [...]
> 
> So the kernel is right, glibc is wrong I'd say ...

This will break the ABI only for uses of si_band and si_fd, and only
on n64.  Anyone see a reason why I shouldn't change glibc?

Ralf, as I mentioned on IRC, I've got bigger worries about siginfo.
Shouldn't n32 be using the same siginfo as o32?  It's got pointers in it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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