Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263308AbUCNGI7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:08:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263310AbUCNGI7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:08:59 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:47516 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263308AbUCNGI5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:08:57 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:09:01 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Alex Lyashkov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: possible kernel bug in signal transit. Message-Id: <20040313220901.64dcd003.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1079243761.8186.46.camel@berloga.shadowland> References: <1079197336.13835.15.camel@berloga.shadowland> <20040313171856.37b32e52.akpm@osdl.org> <1079239159.8186.24.camel@berloga.shadowland> <20040313210051.6b4a2846.akpm@osdl.org> <1079241668.8186.33.camel@berloga.shadowland> <20040313214700.387c4ff3.akpm@osdl.org> <1079243761.8186.46.camel@berloga.shadowland> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 666 Lines: 16 Alex Lyashkov wrote: > > > Well we can only return one error code. Or are you suggesting that we > > should terminate the loop early on error? If so, why? > You say me can return _last_ error core. but this function return > _first_. It doesn't matter, really. Other parts of the kernel will generally return the first-encountered error because at times it _does_ matter. But here it doesn't. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/