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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:45:19 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC c/r 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR_kcmp syscall v7
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:40:54AM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Can you make the prototype:
> static int kcmp_ptr(void *v1, void *v2, enum kcmp_type type)
> 
> So the caller does not need to have casts?

Sure.

> I believe I commented on this earlier but it looks like it got lost in
> the noise.
> 
> file == NULL != file == NULL.
> 
> When you can't lookup the file kcmp should return -EBADF.
> 

Yes, Eric, I somehow missed it in replies flowing. I'll update.
Thanks!

	Cyrill