Somewhere else, pid_t is a typedef for an int. Rene On 09.05.2016 03:25, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 12:38 PM, René Nyffenegger > <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Use pid_t instead of int in the declarations of sys_kill, sys_tgkill, >> sys_tkill and sys_rt_sigqueueinfo in include/linux/syscalls.h > > The description is no good. *Why* are you changing it? > > I checked tgkill and, indeed, tgkill takes pid_t parameters, so this > fixes an incorrect declaration. I'm wondering why the code compiles > without warning. Is SYSCALL_DEFINE too lenient for some reason? Or > is pid_t just defined as int. > > --Andy > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html