* Let a parent know about the death of a child.
* For a stopped/continued status change, use do_notify_parent_cldstop instead.
*
- * Returns -1 if our parent ignored us and so we've switched to
- * self-reaping, or else @sig.
+ * Returns true if our parent ignored us and so we've switched to
+ * self-reaping.
*/
-int do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
+bool do_notify_parent(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig)
{
struct siginfo info;
unsigned long flags;
struct sighand_struct *psig;
- int ret = sig;
+ bool autoreap = false;
BUG_ON(sig == -1);
* is implementation-defined: we do (if you don't want
* it, just use SIG_IGN instead).
*/
- ret = tsk->exit_signal = -1;
+ autoreap = true;
+ tsk->exit_signal = -1;
if (psig->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_handler == SIG_IGN)
- sig = -1;
+ sig = 0;
}
- if (valid_signal(sig) && sig > 0)
+ if (valid_signal(sig) && sig)
__group_send_sig_info(sig, &info, tsk->parent);
__wake_up_parent(tsk, tsk->parent);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psig->siglock, flags);
- return ret;
+ return autoreap;
}
/**