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Re: sigsuspend() returns 111 on Alpha (repeatable, w/ source)
>>>>> Eric F Sorton writes:
> Hi All,
> I have verified that the bug I described in the previous message repeats under
> kernel version 2.3.99pre6 as well as 2.2.14 and 2.2.15. Any advice on this
> problem would be appreciated. Am I at least asking the "correct" group? Is
> this a libc issue or is it a kernel issue?
It looks like a kernel bug. glibc's sigsuspend code on alpha is found
in sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/sigsuspend.S (appended).
Andreas
/* Copyright (C) 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
Contributed by David Mosberger <davidm@cs.arizona.edu>, 1995.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
/* sigsuspend is a special syscall since it needs to dereference the
sigset. This will have to change when we have more than 64 signals. */
#include <sysdep.h>
.text
LEAF(__sigsuspend, 0)
#ifdef PROF
ldgp gp, 0(pv)
.set noat
lda AT, _mcount
jsr AT, (AT), _mcount
.set at
.prologue 1
#else
.prologue 0
#endif
ldq a0, 0(a0)
ldi v0, __NR_sigsuspend
call_pal PAL_callsys
bne a3, error
ret
error:
#ifndef PROF
br gp, 1f
1: ldgp gp, 0(gp)
#endif
jmp zero, __syscall_error
END(__sigsuspend)
weak_alias(__sigsuspend, sigsuspend)
--
Andreas Jaeger
SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
private aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de