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authorJesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>2005-05-01 08:59:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-05-01 08:59:13 -0700
commite5bdd883a189243541e7a132385580703b049102 (patch)
tree6e56919829118d5aa6aa89991edaba764825fab2
parent1c72d46d98e4eb16f1a1b38eba94cc3aa8022cfa (diff)
[PATCH] new valid_signal() function
This patch adds a new function valid_signal() that tests if its argument is a valid signal number. The reasons for adding this new function are: - some code currently testing _NSIG directly has off-by-one errors. Using this function instead avoids such errors. - some code currently tests unsigned signal numbers for <0 which is pointless and generates warnings when building with gcc -W. Using this function instead avoids such warnings. I considered various places to add this function but eventually settled on include/linux/signal.h as the most logical place for it. If there's some reason this is a bad choice then please let me know (hints as to a better location are then welcome of course). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/signal.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h
index 78bfb266e4f..0a98f5ec5ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/signal.h
@@ -220,6 +220,12 @@ static inline void init_sigpending(struct sigpending *sig)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sig->list);
}
+/* Test if 'sig' is valid signal. Use this instead of testing _NSIG directly */
+static inline int valid_signal(unsigned long sig)
+{
+ return sig <= _NSIG ? 1 : 0;
+}
+
extern int group_send_sig_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *p);
extern int __group_send_sig_info(int, struct siginfo *, struct task_struct *);
extern long do_sigpending(void __user *, unsigned long);