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From: Jukka Ukkonen <jau@jau.csc.fi>
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Subject: Re: POSIX.4 signals + other POSIX.4 stuff to FreeBSD...
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 17:55:59 +0300 (EET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199606271240.WAA10241@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 27, 96 10:40:19 pm
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Quoting Bruce Evans:
> 
> >	containing such an array. I have now more or less figured out
> >	all these code fragments within the kernel itself, but it seems
> >	that also the Linux application binary interface etc. LKMs have
> 
> More importantly, the size of a sigset_t is appart of the BSD binary
> interface.  The kernel would have to support variably-sized sigset_t's
> to support old binaries :-(.  There is no such thing as a variably-sized
> struct, and the current sigset_t doesn't encode its size, this isn't
> easy.

	Yes, I know. The old interface would have to remain for all those
	programs that have been compiled and linked with the old version.


	Cheers,
		// jau
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