On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > We only need this flag as an implicit parameter to the arch dependent do_signal() > which we can't call directly, and thus it must imply TIF_SIGPENDING, and it > is not valid after do_signal() (should be cleared). This all looks like > ERESTART_ magic, why should we add something else ? I think you're right. I didn't look at the actual code-paths, but my gut feel says "yes, TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK should actually have been -ERESTARTSIGRESTORE". That sounds like the right thing to do. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html