linux-kernel - Re: Pull request: TASK

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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:03:53 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Liam Howlett <howlett@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Pull request: TASK_KILLABLE


On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 12:54 +1100, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No need to make that one-liner function be a GPL-only export, it's not 
> like any of the other regular sigpending functions are we export are 
> GPL-only either (dequeue_signal() is, but that is because we *really* 
> don't want people using that, and it's really about internal signal 
> handling behavior).

No. It was more in the spirit of "let's not export a function that
others may implement trivially using established interfaces". However if
you don't care, then here's a replacement.

Cheers
  Trond

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