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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: mlock: Make the mlock system call interruptible by fatal
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:49:40 +0200
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Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2008 12:22:55 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > > Can we do
> > >
> > >        return i ? i : -EINTR;
> > >
> > > in the usual fashion?
> > 
> > Fixed.
> 
> If its only interruptible by fatal signals why do we care what the return
> is ?

ptrace?

	Regards
		Oliver