Subject: Re: SA_SIGINFO patch
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/03/2003 16:43:38
On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 03:13 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> The issue is the same as having two clocks? Which one shows the right
> time?
> I don't see any reason to maintain sigcontext, except for backwards
> compatibility. The functions are not that small. We have both the
> sendsig
> and sigreturn to deal with. There is still a lot of code duplication,
> although I eliminated some...
I'm not going to fight about whether or not to deprecate sigcontext.
However, I will fight for naming the siginfo-using trampolines
__sigtramp_siginfo_1. It doesn't cost ANYTHING to use the naming
scheme that has more clarity to it.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>