Re: [PATCH] siginfo, kernel 2.3.35

Jeff Dike (jdike@karaya.com)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 17:19:03 -0500

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> This is necessary to an application I'm working on, which does
> user-level paging by trapping SIGSEGV. This is a fairly standard UNIX
> technique, that is impossible on Linux without this patch.

Why not? I'm doing exactly that in the user-mode port.

>From a quick look at your patch, it seems that you're using the rt signals,
which I've never used and don't understand. I'm using the normal SIGSEGV, and
I find all the info I need in the sigcontext struct that I get.

Jeff

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