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commit a98430587c57da2832fa9abe336c5a8f8137e89c
Author: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 19 07:04:24 2012 +0530

    Fix comment that describes sighandler_setxid

diff --git a/nptl/ChangeLog b/nptl/ChangeLog
index b5d0d71..b9a9dfb 100644
--- a/nptl/ChangeLog
+++ b/nptl/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-07-19  Siddhesh Poyarekar  <siddhesh@redhat.com>
+
+	* nptl-init.c (sighandler_setxid): Fix the comment that
+	describes it.
+
 2012-06-23  Thomas Schwinge  <thomas@codesourcery.com>
 
 	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/lowlevelrobustlock.S
diff --git a/nptl/nptl-init.c b/nptl/nptl-init.c
index ea3d1ec..5216ce1 100644
--- a/nptl/nptl-init.c
+++ b/nptl/nptl-init.c
@@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ sigcancel_handler (int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *ctx)
 
 struct xid_command *__xidcmd attribute_hidden;
 
-/* For asynchronous cancellation we use a signal.  This is the handler.  */
+/* We use the SIGSETXID signal in the setuid, setgid, etc. implementations to
+   tell each thread to call the respective setxid syscall on itself.  This is
+   the handler.  */
 static void
 sighandler_setxid (int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *ctx)
 {

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Summary of changes:
 nptl/ChangeLog   |    5 +++++
 nptl/nptl-init.c |    4 +++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


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