Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759225AbXHRXNQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:13:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756548AbXHRXNG (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:13:06 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:58919 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756088AbXHRXND (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:13:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Oleg Nesterov X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] exec: simplify the new ->sighand allocation In-Reply-To: Oleg Nesterov's message of Saturday, 18 August 2007 21:39:50 +0400 <20070818173950.GA212@tv-sign.ru> Emacs: no job too big... no job. Message-Id: <20070818231259.1A9834D05C6@magilla.localdomain> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:12:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 531 Lines: 15 > - ENOMEM still can happen after de_thread(), ->sighand is not the last > object we have to allocate As long as this is true, I think it's the incontrovertible argument there is no reason not to simplify it. (Not that I don't also agree with your other reasons). Thanks, Roland - 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/