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authorChristian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>2019-06-04 15:18:43 +0200
committerChristian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>2019-06-05 15:06:07 +0200
commitc732327f04a3818f35fa97d07b1d64d31b691d78 (patch)
tree5655209212a152c3dd5584af09a73232db13d7b9 /kernel/signal.c
parent7c33277b9a9ada187f805b41ffbebe6c51622fb6 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
-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