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To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Subject: Re: More than 32 signals. Thought? 
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:26:06 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <88584.936022644@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sheldon Hearn writes:
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: 
: > The Linux trick I like to add is to have sigset_t always be the last
: > field in structures so that the impact of enlarging sigset_t is
: > minimal.
: 
: On LITTLE_ENDIAN machines?

Endian shouldn't matter.  An array at the end of a struct is going to
grow that struct in identical ways...  If the array index is defined
sanely, then no one will notice if the lenght is passed in.

Warner


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