Re: simple fork.c comment patch

From: Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 14:27:24 EST


while you are there, why not change system_call.s to
arch/i386/kernel/entry.S too or even get rid of it completely "now" that
Linux supports more than x86 arch?

On Tue, 2 May 2000, [iso-8859-2] Milo¹ Prchlík wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> Some time ago I tried to find function 'copy_page_tables' in 'mm.c' when
> reading 'fork.c'. I did not succeded - after some time I recognized why -
> file' and function' names had changed. Ok. it surely had some purposes, but
> comments are still the same. I really don't want to punnish you for this
> 'mistake' - it is just one line between thousands and thousands lines - so a
> make a little patch for you - it could be usefull for users to find what
> they are looking for :) I know that there must be more and more mistakes,
> not-valid comments, so, this is the first...
>
> Milos Prchlik
>
>
> --- v2.3.99-pre7/kernel/fork.c Sat Apr 22 01:08:45 2000
> +++ linux/kernel/fork.c Tue May 2 20:12:33 2000
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
> * 'fork.c' contains the help-routines for the 'fork' system call
> * (see also system_call.s).
> * Fork is rather simple, once you get the hang of it, but the memory
> - * management can be a bitch. See 'mm/mm.c': 'copy_page_tables()'
> + * management can be a bitch. See 'mm/memory.c': 'copy_page_range()'
> */
>
> #include <linux/config.h>
>
>
>
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