Re: Linux 2.5.60

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 02:38:01 EST


On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Oleg Drokin wrote:
>
> One of yours hand merged UML updates/fixes in, and another one broke it badly by introducing
> sigprocmask(). Now there is a conflict between in-kernel sigprocmask() and
> glibc's sigprocmask() (that UML uses to manage signal delivery to right thread).
> Can we please change the name of in-kernel's sigprocmask() to avoid name clash? ;)

No. I'm not goinmg to start caring about user-land naming in-kernel, that
way is a slippery slope. This is firmly a UML problem.

                Linus

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