purely as an aside
this detailed conversation on how notes are handled in the
kernel is very interesting, I was trying to understand this myself
recently and gave up; I will now try again.
Thanks,
-Steve
> I'm not claiming anyone to be wrong. I want to solve
> this problem.
i'm not sure there is a problem with notes. but i really can't
answer that question. someone with a better understanding
of what notes are supposed to be could answer this.
> I also noted that i think this is the correct beh
> > I'm not claiming anyone to be wrong. I want to solve
> > this problem.
>
> i'm not sure there is a problem with notes. but i really can't
> answer that question. someone with a better understanding
> of what notes are supposed to be could answer this.
>
> > I also noted that i think this is
> i'm not convinced that you've explained why this change is
> correct or why it could solve the problem. after all, the
> NNOTED array is only 5 entries long. what if one gets 5
> user notes before the system note?
> do you kill the process (isn't this how it works now?),
> make notes unreliable
