Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 2021 09:31:36 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/9] Refactoring exit |
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Hi Michael,
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 1:00 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
The warning is printed when using filesys-ELF-2.0.x-1400K-2.gz, which is a very old ramdisk from right after the m68k a.out to ELF transition:
warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call Fix your initscripts?
I still boot it, once in a while.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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