From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, mtk.manpages@googlemail.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
drepper@redhat.com, vegard.nossum@gmail.com,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sys_waitid: return -EFAULT for NULL
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:47:16 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090113234716.765A8FC3DD@magilla.sf.frob.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andrew Morton's message of Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:24:57 -0800 <20090113152457.0d7685ad.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Well yes. waitid() has been in there since 2.6.9. I assume that it
> has had this wait4-emulation mode for that amount of time as well?
Correct.
> Well, we might get away with it. But formally speaking, we should live
> with our Linux-specific screwup.
I agree with both of you and I don't care which we do.
Thanks,
Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-13 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <cfd18e0f0901131436ud2cf61bkf0e6b00f4b765bb5@mail.gmail.com>
2009-01-13 22:38 ` waitid() return value strangeness when infop is NULL Michael Kerrisk
2009-01-13 22:43 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-01-13 22:47 ` Roland McGrath
2009-01-13 22:49 ` [PATCH] sys_waitid: return -EFAULT for NULL Roland McGrath
2009-01-13 23:14 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-01-13 23:24 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-13 23:36 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-01-13 23:47 ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2009-01-14 0:13 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-01-14 0:24 ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-01-14 0:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-14 0:53 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-01-14 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-14 1:39 ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-01-14 2:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-14 2:28 ` Michael Kerrisk
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