Bug 16713 - [s390x] Member "sa_flags" does not have the correct type
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Sep 10 15:48:00 GMT 2014
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> But means glibc and the kernel don't agree anymore on the structure
> layout of struct sigaction. The kernel is still using unsigned long
> sa_flags on s390. I guess this still works out because all current
> SA_... flag values fit in an int. But it does mean the kernel cannot
> expand the flag field values anymore in the future.
Given that there are platforms where the flags field is 32-bit in the
kernel, and that these bits seem unlikely to be architecture-specific,
there wasn't really scope for expanding these values beyond 32-bit anyway.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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