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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
	mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com,
	Tony.Reix@bull.net
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] fix sched_setscheduler semantics
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:57:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137452266.15553.89.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060116225215.GA11049@mipter.zuzino.mipt.ru>

On Maw, 2006-01-17 at 01:52 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 05:17:55PM -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> > --- linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c.bak
> > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c
> > @@ -3824,6 +3824,10 @@ do_sched_setscheduler(pid_t pid, int pol
> >  asmlinkage long sys_sched_setscheduler(pid_t pid, int policy,
> >  				       struct sched_param __user *param)
> >  {
> > +	/* negative values for policy are not valid */
> > +	if (policy < 0)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> 
> Classical redundant comment.

Disagree. A pointless comment would be "if policy is negative return
-EINVAL". The comment makes it clear that policy < 0 is *invalid* as a
syscall argument rather than just something not currently handled, or
being done for algorithmic reasons


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-16 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-16 22:17 Jason Baron
2006-01-16 22:52 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-01-16 22:57   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-01-17  7:59 ` Ingo Molnar

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