Re: [PATCH -tip 2/6 V4.2] x86: add arch-dep register and stack access API to ptrace

2009-04-06 Thread Roland McGrath
I have no comments about the patch, but the subject line is misleading because this has nothing do with ptrace. It's in asm/ptrace.h but it being struct pt_regs does not really have anything to do with ptrace. Thanks, Roland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the

Re: [PATCH -tip 2/6 V4.1] x86: add arch-dep register and stack access API to ptrace

2009-04-03 Thread Roland McGrath
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Re: [PATCH] posix-timers: Do not modify an already queued timer signal

2008-07-20 Thread Roland McGrath
Yes, thanks, I see. But does it have any meaning for the user-space? [si_sys_private] No, it's not part of the user ABI. It's not even copied out (see copy_siginfo_to_user). (A spare siginfo_t field was just used as a handy bit of storage in the signal queue element. It's a kludge.) Let me