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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com.br>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:00:26 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4 force_successful_syscall()
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> Here's a 2.4 backport of this change to 2.5:
> 
>     http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.1046.238.7?nav=index.html
> 
> Alpha, ppc, and sparc64 define force_successful_syscall_return() in 2.5,
> but since it's not obvious to me how to do it correctly in 2.4, I left
> them unchanged.

Whats the reasoning behing this patch?