linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 2/4][AIO]

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Date:	Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:02:17 -0800
From:	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
CC:	Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@...l.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-aio <linux-aio@...ck.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>,
	Jean Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion@...l.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/4][AIO] - export good_sigevent()

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Zach Brown wrote:
>> I wonder if "good_sigevent()" isn't a very strong name for something
>> that is now up in signal.h.  Maybe "sigevent_find_task()"?
> 
> That's not the purpose, it's just one of the checks which need to be
> done to check that the sigevent value is "good".

Hmm?  It returns a task_struct *, potentially after finding it with
find_task_by_pid().

That said, I don't particularly care much.  It just jumped out as I was
reading it.

- z
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