Re: glibc 2.1.92 tst-getdate failure on linuxppc

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>]

> Cc: Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com, howarth@fuse.net,
>         libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
> From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
> Date: 28 Aug 2000 11:04:50 +0200
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef)
> 
> >>>>> Geoff Keating writes:
> 
>  > I think instead you can change these bits by causing a signal,
>  > changing the bits in the signal's context in the signal handler, and
>  > returning.  Try the attached.  I don't know of any way to test this
>  > because handling of those bits is somewhat broken in current linux
>  > kernels.
> 
>  > I guess if this works for you, just put it in place, and if the kernel
>  > changes later it'll be their fault :-).
> You should save and restore the SIGUSR1 handler, the user is allowed
> to use it.

I do.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>