Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/9] Refactoring exit | From | Michael Schmitz <> | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:59:51 +1200 |
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On 28/06/21 10:13 am, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:45:23PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > >> 13) there's bdflush(1, whatever), which is equivalent to exit(0). >> IMO it's long past the time to simply remove the sucker. > Incidentally, calling that from ptraced process on alpha leads to > the same headache for tracer. _If_ we leave it around, this is > another candidate for "hit yourself with that special signal" - > both alpha and m68k have that syscall, and IMO adding an asm > wrapper for that one is over the top. > > Said that, we really ought to bury that thing: > > commit 2f268ee88abb33968501a44368db55c63adaad40 > Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> > Date: Sat Dec 14 03:16:29 2002 -0800 > > [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush() > > Patch from Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> > > We can never get rid of it if we do not deprecate it - so do so and > print a stern warning to those who still run bdflush daemons. > > Deprecated for 18.5 years by now - I seriously suspect that we have > some contributors younger than that...
Haven't found that warning in over 7 years' worth of console logs, and I'm a good candidate for running the oldest userland in existence for m68k.
Time to let it go.
Cheers,
Michael
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