Re: [PATCH 0/9] Refactoring exit

Michael Schmitz
2021-06-28T17:14:31Z

Hi Geert,

Am 28.06.2021 um 19:31 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
>> 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.

OK; you take the cake. That ramdisk came to mind when I thought about
where I'd last seen bdflush, but I've not used it in ages (not sure 14
MB are enough for that).

The question then is - will bdflush fail gracefully, or spin retrying
the syscall?

Cheers,

Michael

>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>