Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 01:12:08 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include signal.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912060109420.1630-100000@alphplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <19991205135624.A4009@cons.org>
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> > > Decisions in order of importance: > > > - Do you accept bumping mcontext_t to 512 bytes? > > > > No, I'll accept ucontext_t to be bumped to a nice round number (say 512 > > bytes) and have the extra space used by mcontext_t :-) > > I'm afraid that is not useful, since there are only 64 bytes left > (with FPU status already there), not enough to keep this extension > scheme running for future extensions. > > What about 4K? :-]]] Arrgh :-). Remember that the whole struct must be bzeroed to prevent leaking kernel data. I think I prefer a variable sized "struct" like struct dirent. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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