Re: [PATCH] Fix queued SIGIO

From: Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 06:41:11 EST


On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:34:03PM +0200, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The problem is really that SI_SIGIO is negative, but it should be positive
> > to make SI_FROMUSER return false on it.
> >
> > Changing it would unfortunately break binary compatibility. This patch
>
> Why ?

If a program checks info->si_code for incoming signals.

-Andi

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