Re: [PATCH] Remove unneeded code in sys_getpriority

From: Rabin Vincent
Date: Sun Feb 03 2008 - 12:59:33 EST


On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:54:45AM +0100, Frank Seidel wrote:
> On Sunday 03 February 2008 04:04, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> > This check is not required because the condition is always true.
> > ...
> > - if (niceval > retval)
> > - retval = niceval;
> > + retval = 20 - task_nice(p);
>
> Thats surely correct, but on the other hand currently those
> case blocks are quite independet of their possition/could easily
> be rearranged now .. or think of another case is put ahead.
> Then this could mess up things.

Do you mean the PRIO_* cases in the switch? They're still independent
of position after the patch because they don't fall through.

> Thanks,
> Frank

Rabin
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