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SubjectRe: 2.2.15pre5: still very unstable
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Manfred Spraul wrote:

>there is no error handling! If gfp() return NULL, then __pollwait() will

That's a completly orthogonal issue not related to the !TASK_RUNNING
discussed issue. While I checked the code myself I only verifyed the
effect of returning in TASK_RUNNING state from GFP and indeed select is
robust against that.

select is instead not rubust if GFP returns NULL and that's a completly
different thing ;)).

So basically your patch was not fixing the bug you was thinking about, but
it was incidentally and perfectly fixing another completly unrelated bug,
fun ;). Thanks for noticing this.

Andrea


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