Re: [PATCH] Use pid_t instead of int

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Sun May 08 2016 - 21:26:17 EST


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