Re: [PATCH] Return EPERM not ECHILD on security_task_wait failure

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Roland McGrath wrote:
> 
> > This patch makes do_wait return -EPERM instead of -ECHILD if some
> > children were ruled out solely because security_task_wait failed.
> 
> What about using the return value from the security_task_wait hook (which 
> should be -EACCES) ?

As I said in some earlier discussion following my original patch, that
would be fine with me.  I haven't coded up that variant, but it's simple
enough.  Would you like to do it?


Thanks,
Roland
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