linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/11] vfs: Don't allow overwriting mounts in the current mount namespace

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Date:	Wed, 19 Feb 2014 13:23:19 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] vfs: Don't allow overwriting mounts in the
 current mount namespace

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:20:29 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> For this kind of function return value it actually tends to work very
> well, and in fact often generates slightly better code than "int". So
> I don't _hate_ bool, and we've certainly had a lot more use creep in
> lately, but I also don't really see "bool" as much of an upside.

And in function declarations, it makes it very obvious that the function
is not one of our "return 0 or -ERROR" ones.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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