On Saturday 17 March 2007 22:35:08 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Also, what's the reasoning behind defining a new structure > instead of just returning siginfo_t? Sure siginfo_t is ugly > but it is a well-defined structure and users already deal > with the problems it causes.
Ok, found the answer myself, fops->read() must not do the conversion to compat_siginfo_t on a 64 bit kernel, that would just be too ugly for words. Arnd <>< - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/