linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Change SIGPIPE's siginfo.si_code from SI_USER to SI

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Message-ID: <20130703195452.GA6930@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 3 Jul 2013 21:54:52 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change SIGPIPE's siginfo.si_code from SI_USER to
	SI_KERNEL.

On 07/03, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>
> @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ pipe_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *_iov,
>  	__pipe_lock(pipe);
>
>  	if (!pipe->readers) {
> -		send_sig(SIGPIPE, current, 0);
> +		send_sig(SIGPIPE, current, 1);

Honestly, I simply have no idea what makes more sense in this case...
But I am not sure about this user-visible change. It can break
something and for what?

And if you do this then I guess you should also change net/.

Oleg.

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