| Date | Tue, 7 Oct 2014 10:17:03 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 02/17] security: make security_file_set_fowner, f_setown and __f_setown void return |
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On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 08:11:42PM +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: > If file_set_fowner op is now type of "void", how you can actually > return the value? > I think compiler must give error. How could you compile it?
Returning void values is a GNU extension. I've seen it in a few places in the kernel. Although in general I'd prefer it we'd remove it (and have the compiler warn about it).
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