Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:32:21 -1000 | Subject | Re: [WTF?] extremely old dead code |
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 1:55 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > Hadn't that sucker been dead code since 0.98.2? What am I missing here? > Note that this thing had quite a few functionality changes over those > years; had they even been tested?
Looks about right to me. The only point that actually acts on FIONBIO is the fs/ioctl.c code.
Impressively, the dead tty code looks perfectly correct to me too, despite not ever being triggered.
Linus
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