linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] signals: fold complete_signal() into send_signal/do_send

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Message-ID: <20080311175629.GB586@tv-sign.ru>
Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:56:29 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] signals: fold complete_signal() into send_signal/do_send_sigqueue

On 03/10, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> This and 1-3/6 look OK to me.  But, since this one appears to be changing
> the sense of the return value from send_signal, I think you should at least
> take the opportunity to add a comment to send_signal saying clearly what
> its return conventions are.

Actually, this patch restores the meaning of the return value, it was temporary
changed by the previous cleanups in -mm tree.

With this patch send_signal() return either 0 or error, as it historically was.

Oleg.

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