On Friday 13 July 2007 02:08:59 pm Volker wrote:
> On 07/11/07 20:42, John Baldwin wrote:
> > This patch attempts to remove a gross hack with a slightly less gross hack 
> > in 
> > order to avoid clobbering data in signal info that Wine needs.  In 7 this 
> > was 
> > fixed by a major change to how the kernel manages signals internally, and 
> > that change is too large to be MFC'd, hence this lighter weight patch.  It 
> > has already been tested by the folks working on Wine, but I would like a 
> > bit 
> > more widespread testing before I commit it.  Please test this patch and let 
> > me know if anything breaks.  Note that this patch is only for i386.
> > 
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/sig_eva.patch
> > 
> 
> John,
> 
> I've patched and recompiled world + kernel using your patch. I can
> confirm it does not hurt but what does it good (my wine already ran
> fine despite some DDE and performance issues)? What to look for
> especially - any specific test procedures?

I'm not as familiar with what it fixes for wine, but it fixes one part of
the siginfo for signals to not contain garbage.

-- 
John Baldwin
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