Re: [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Jan Kiszka : cobalt/posix/syscall: Exclude sc_cobalt_get_current from debug warnings

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2015-02-20 18:09, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2015-02-20 17:49, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>> On 02/20/2015 04:53 PM, git repository hosting wrote:
>>> Module: xenomai-jki
>>> Branch: for-forge
>>> Commit: fc2d70475f4f86da30e68a569e7641982f4dd8e1
>>> URL:    http://git.xenomai.org/?p=xenomai-jki.git;a=commit;h=fc2d70475f4f86da30e68a569e7641982f4dd8e1
>>>
>>> Author: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>>> Date:   Fri Feb 20 16:50:15 2015 +0100
>>>
>>> cobalt/posix/syscall: Exclude sc_cobalt_get_current from debug warnings
>>>
>>> This syscall is used for probing the context, thus may be triggered by
>>> non-RT threads as well which we should not report as potential error.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>>>
>>
>> This would mean that sc_cobalt_get_current is considered valid from any
>> process, including those which did not issue sc_cobalt_bind in the first
>> place.
>>
>> Do we depend on this today, or are we granting an extended access with
>> this patch?
> 
> This is just to silence a warning you get, e.g., with the smokey fork test.
> 
> I don't think it should be illegal to call such a service, even prior to
> binding to the interface. It is already robust against it, isn't it?
> 

Just noticed this patch in my queue while rebasing over next. Did you
come to a conclusion?

Jan

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