Am 25.05.2015 um 18:50 schrieb Oleg Nesterov: > AAAAOn 05/25, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> >> Is this functionality still in use/needed? > > All I can say it doesn't work. > >> Otherwise we could get rid of block_all_signals() and unpuzzle the signaling >> code a bit. :-) > > Yes. I do not even remember when I reported this the first time. Perhaps > more than 10 years ago. > > See the last attempt in 2011: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/12/263 > I copied this email below.
Thank you Oleg, this makes sense. I was actually wondering WTF this function is good for. Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
