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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sys_waitid: return -EFAULT for NULL
In-Reply-To: Andrew Morton's message of  Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:24:57 -0800 <20090113152457.0d7685ad.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:47:16 -0800 (PST)
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> 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
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