[ECOS] Fedora Core 3 - Ecos synth crashes.

[John Carter]

On Wed, 4 May 2005, Bart Veer wrote:

> What you are looking at there is a struct sigaction, not a struct
> old_sigaction.

Hmm, I saw that in the code, but I'm not totally convinced.

As I read it, somewhere down the bottom of everything the linux sigaction 
system call is made and it is expecting the new type sigaction. Linux is 
expecting distributors to recompile #including the new headers which would 
result in it all just working. Unfortunately ecos copies and pastes the 
old struct definition hence remains out of step.

Valgrind seems to second my reading of this in that it whinges about 
uninitialized data being passed to sigaction without my mods, and is 
happy with them.


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