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| author | Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2007-06-01 03:47:06 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-06-01 11:18:29 -0400 |
| commit | 62e5b05db6cd5dd9cf9614cc5d2d0702c1e339bb (patch) | |
| tree | bd1800cc229a196cb36c90db8432577f5421c060 | |
| parent | d7083174a2ca5ff80de773d2054caee2f77bf9f9 (diff) | |
Better documentation for ERESTARTSYS
Add comment for errnos related to restart syscall to avoid the leakage of
them to user programs.
Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/errno.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/errno.h b/include/linux/errno.h index d90b80f9b28c..46685832ed99 100644 --- a/include/linux/errno.h +++ b/include/linux/errno.h | |||
| @@ -5,7 +5,12 @@ | |||
| 5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | #ifdef __KERNEL__ | 6 | #ifdef __KERNEL__ |
| 7 | 7 | ||
| 8 | /* Should never be seen by user programs */ | 8 | /* |
| 9 | * These should never be seen by user programs. To return one of ERESTART* | ||
| 10 | * codes, signal_pending() MUST be set. Note that ptrace can observe these | ||
| 11 | * at syscall exit tracing, but they will never be left for the debugged user | ||
| 12 | * process to see. | ||
| 13 | */ | ||
| 9 | #define ERESTARTSYS 512 | 14 | #define ERESTARTSYS 512 |
| 10 | #define ERESTARTNOINTR 513 | 15 | #define ERESTARTNOINTR 513 |
| 11 | #define ERESTARTNOHAND 514 /* restart if no handler.. */ | 16 | #define ERESTARTNOHAND 514 /* restart if no handler.. */ |