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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:22:06 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING
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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On 04/09, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> One of the supposed advantages of TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK in the first
> place, iirc, was that it allowed us to return a result code other than
> -EINTR as _well_ as restoring the signal mask.

Agreed, good point. ERESTART_ is not that flexible.

Somehow I assumed we will never need something "special" here, this is
not very clever.

Thanks to all!

Oleg.