Fame and Infamy

Many of you know I have been working extremely hard to make some quality contributions to the Linux kernel. This can be a tough environment to work it, but also very rewarding. For the last couple of months I've been working on a patch series to allow for the requeueing of Priority Inheritance aware futexes in order to make glibc pthread_condvars PI aware and avoid some of the problems with the current implementation. I recently sent out an early copy of the patch series to be reviewed by a few core people, not even labeling the mails with [PATCH] as is customary. Apparently that didn't stop someone from finding my new tongue-in-cheek error code for dealing with misbehaving user applications. I was cited on LWN's Quotes of the Week, along with Steven Rostedt, Linus Torvalds, and Andrew Morton. I was the only one, however, to earn a nickname for my efforts. Darren "graceful" Hart, thank you very much :-)

If you don't have an LWN account, I'll try and post a new link once it's publicly visible, but for now, the interesting code segment mentioned in the article follows:

+	/*
+	 * The pifutex has an owner, make sure it's us, if not complain
+	 * to userspace.
+	 * FIXME_LATER: handle this gracefully
+	 */
+	pid = curval & FUTEX_TID_MASK;
+	if (pid && pid != task_pid_vnr(current))
+		return -EMORON;