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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Sat, 1 May 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Maybe we should change __syscall_return() to return the -ve errno rather
> than -1?

Yes. Except we should probably only do this for __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__, since
it's possible that somebody is still using this in user space (it
pre-glibc people).

So maybe a

	#undef __syscall_return
	#define __syscall_return(type, res)	return (type)(res);

inside the __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ area?

		Linus