Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261845AbVEZXW5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 19:22:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261846AbVEZXW5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 19:22:57 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35499 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261845AbVEZXW4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 May 2005 19:22:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:22:49 -0700 Message-Id: <200505262322.j4QNMnd9011168@magilla.sf.frob.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Linus Torvalds X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: "David S. Miller" , akpm@osdl.org, mtk-lkml@gmx.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael.kerrisk@gmx.net Subject: Re: waitid() fails with EINVAL for SA_RESTART signals In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of Thursday, 26 May 2005 16:19:02 -0700 X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus X-Zippy-Says: Don't SANFORIZE me!! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 600 Lines: 13 > x86 has largely tried to move in that direction too, ie a lot of the > asm-calls have been turned into FASTCALL() with %eax pointing to the > stack. > > Roland, I applied the patch, but if there was some particular case that > triggered this, maybe it's worth trying to re-write that one. It's a danger for any system call. Here it was sys_waitid. - 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/