Re: [PATCH] Use pid_t instead of int

From: Renà Nyffenegger
Date: Mon May 09 2016 - 00:16:00 EST


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, Renà 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
>