sigcontext_struct

[Andrew Haley]

> From: Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu>
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:24:37 -0600 (MDT)
> > 
> > I think that we should drop support for the old sigcontext stuff
> > altogether and use the newer SystemV siginfo handler instead.  I've
> > already written this, and it's just a matter of checking it in to
> > sourceware.  (Tom: it's in devo/libjava if you want to have a look.)
> 
> A bit of related information I thought I'd pass along.
> 
> As you know, siginfo doesn't work on Linux 2.0.x kernels.
> However, there are some installations out there that run 2.0.x kernels
> with versions of glibc that define SA_SIGINFO in their header files.

Yeah, but surely these are people who have an incompatible combination
of library and kernel.  I can't see that libgcj is at fault if a
header file is incorrectly defining a feature which is missing.

Actually, it seems odd that glibc is defining SA_SIGINFO at all; it's
a kernel feature.

Andrew.