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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2012-07-19 07:04:24 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2012-07-19 07:04:24 +0530
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Fix comment that describes sighandler_setxid
Diffstat (limited to 'nptl')
-rw-r--r--nptl/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--nptl/nptl-init.c4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nptl/ChangeLog b/nptl/ChangeLog
index b5d0d71..b9a9dfb 100644
--- a/nptl/ChangeLog
+++ b/nptl/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-07-19 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
+
+ * nptl-init.c (sighandler_setxid): Fix the comment that
+ describes it.
+
2012-06-23 Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/lowlevelrobustlock.S
diff --git a/nptl/nptl-init.c b/nptl/nptl-init.c
index ea3d1ec..5216ce1 100644
--- a/nptl/nptl-init.c
+++ b/nptl/nptl-init.c
@@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ sigcancel_handler (int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *ctx)
struct xid_command *__xidcmd attribute_hidden;
-/* For asynchronous cancellation we use a signal. This is the handler. */
+/* We use the SIGSETXID signal in the setuid, setgid, etc. implementations to
+ tell each thread to call the respective setxid syscall on itself. This is
+ the handler. */
static void
sighandler_setxid (int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *ctx)
{