I was made aware of a suggested change to POSIX's exit function. Current issue 7: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exit.html Proposed change: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=594#c1317 In summary: from "the least significant 8 bits (that is, status & 0377)" to "the full value shall be available from waitid()"
Now, Linux currently does a & 0xff in kernel/exit.c in the exit and exit_group syscalls. I would expect that the proposed change requires a new system call, and if so, what should its name be? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
