Re: [patch] sleep_on() fixes, 2.2.3-1

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Sat, 6 Mar 1999 16:54:15 +0100 (CET)


On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> >+#define __wait_event_interruptible(wq, condition) \
>
> Here I think we could add a third param to the macro, that will be the
> retval in the interrupted case. It's zero cost and looks nicer to me.

the macro returns a value just like a function. I chose it because we
usually prefer return values instead of side-effects. And it's not
mandatory to use the return value.

-- mingo

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