Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:05:36 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: miltonm@realtime.net, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Omen.Wild@Dartmouth.EDU,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: call_usermodehelper does not report exit status?
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Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> Anything wrong with just setting a SIG_DFL handler?

Seems that any time we make a change here it looks fine, tests out fine,
and explodes messily three weeks later.

> W.R.T. the kernel
> pointer, either Andrew's patch which does put_user/__put_user depending
> on context, or some ugly set_fs() should work.  This simplistic approach
> works for me, thoughts?

Yes, set_fs() is better.
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