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On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Thank you for the patch, but there are a couple of problems with it.
> [snip]
> - Changing SI_USER could have consequences for existing applications.
> I'm willing to change SI_USER to zero and then add a workaround later if
> anyone squawks (since this breaks backwards compatibility) but I'm not
> willing to change the value of every value in that enum as your change
> above does.

Just a quick note: the SA_SIGINFO handling was only added in the
snapshots, so backward compatibility shouldn't be that much of an issue.
	Igor
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