Re: Libc support for old BSD-style "sigcontext" signal handlers is broken, let's just kill it.

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Oct 26, 2021, at 11:07 AM, Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:
> 
>    Date:        Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:27:20 +0300
>    From:        Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
>    Message-ID:  <YXgeWGwDQRbMmtDT%pony.stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
> 
>  | OTOH the old
>  | *binaries* (using old dynamic libc, or linked with old static libc)
>  | still need the kernel support.
> 
> I think the point is that the "old dynamic libc" is the current libc,
> unless an old binary is so old that it linked against libc.11 or earlier
> (which means way back into the last millenium sometime).
> 
> So not only is kernel support needed, libc (12) support is as well.  Once
> the fabled libc version bump happens this will all change.

I mean, I could certainly fix it (and rev the symbol), just don’t know if it’s worth the bother since it’s been broken for so long.

-- thorpej