Re: sigaction SA_SIGINFO functionality

Richard Henderson (rth@cygnus.com)
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 02:16:33 -0800

On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 10:43:38AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> No, it doesn't. It never passes a usefull struct siginfo to the signal
> handler, even if the machine dependent function does provide it.

I know that. It's rather beside the point.

> But this struct siginfo contains no interesting information. See
> dequeue_signal.

I know that too. Both things can be remedied if someone
ever sets about create machine dependent functions that
do provide anything.

I'd thought the point of the question was that SA_SIGINFO
wasn't creating the right shape stack frame.

r~

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