linux-kernel - Re: mlock: Make the mlock system call interruptible by fatal

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Message-ID: <20080924112255.64304a64@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:22:55 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	sqazi@...gle.com (Salman Qazi)
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mlock: Make the mlock system call interruptible by fatal

> > Can we do
> >
> >        return i ? i : -EINTR;
> >
> > in the usual fashion?
> 
> Fixed.

If its only interruptible by fatal signals why do we care what the return
is ?

Alan (confused)
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