Bug 16713 - [s390x] Member "sa_flags" does not have the correct type

Sergio Durigan Junior sergiodj@redhat.com
Wed Sep 10 16:42:00 GMT 2014


On Tuesday, September 09 2014, Rich Felker wrote:

> glibc needs to have a POSIX conforming public definition of struct
> sigaction. If there's any risk of the kernel interpreting the junk in
> the upper bits due to the kernel's incorrect definition of the
> structure, then glibc needs to make a copy to pass to the kernel, with
> the unused bits filled with zeros in the copy.

Thanks for the explanation.  Then yeah, the "bridge struct" idea seems
like the best one.

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