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authorChristian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>2019-06-04 16:18:43 +0300
committerChristian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>2019-06-05 16:06:07 +0300
commitc732327f04a3818f35fa97d07b1d64d31b691d78 (patch)
tree5655209212a152c3dd5584af09a73232db13d7b9
parent7c33277b9a9ada187f805b41ffbebe6c51622fb6 (diff)
downloadlinux-c732327f04a3818f35fa97d07b1d64d31b691d78.tar.xz
signal: improve comments
Improve the comments for pidfd_send_signal(). First, the comment still referred to a file descriptor for a process as a "task file descriptor" which stems from way back at the beginning of the discussion. Replace this with "pidfd" for consistency. Second, the wording for the explanation of the arguments to the syscall was a bit inconsistent, e.g. some used the past tense some used present tense. Make the wording more consistent. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 328a01e1a2f0..d622eac9d169 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -3621,12 +3621,11 @@ static struct pid *pidfd_to_pid(const struct file *file)
}
/**
- * sys_pidfd_send_signal - send a signal to a process through a task file
- * descriptor
- * @pidfd: the file descriptor of the process
- * @sig: signal to be sent
- * @info: the signal info
- * @flags: future flags to be passed
+ * sys_pidfd_send_signal - Signal a process through a pidfd
+ * @pidfd: file descriptor of the process
+ * @sig: signal to send
+ * @info: signal info
+ * @flags: future flags
*
* The syscall currently only signals via PIDTYPE_PID which covers
* kill(<positive-pid>, <signal>. It does not signal threads or process