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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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The changes look straight forward except that Linux's _NSIG is 64 :(


> > Okay, whats rt_signal I presume that it means real time signals and if so
> > do we have a BSD counterpart ?
> 
> Your access to the Linux source is just as open as mine. 8)
> 
> > > > 21258 audiog   CALL  #174
> ...
> > > #174 is sys_rt_sigaction.  Ok, who's up for some more hacking? 8)
> 
> Basically it's just the old sigaction syscall with an extra argument 
> (the size of the sigaction struct).  However, they more or less ignore 
> the size (the call just fails when it doesn't match).
> 
> Look at linux/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c for the old sigaction and 
> linux/kernel/signal.c for the new one, and then patch our 
> linux_signal.c accordingly.
> 
> -- 
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> 

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 Amancio Hasty
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