From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o23CssI6077588 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:54:56 -0600 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id D643D13D0082 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 04:56:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id X20p1AeDzq7OBea8 for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:56:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 07:56:19 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xfsqa: add delayed allocation @ ENOSPC exerciser Message-ID: <20100303125619.GA26672@infradead.org> References: <1267597162-12092-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1267597162-12092-2-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1267597162-12092-2-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:19:20PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > + killall -9 dd > /dev/null 2>&1 This seems a bit dangerous. I have at least one old system that uses dd to continously read the kernel message buffer in the background, and there's tons of other potential dd uses. Given that we now require bash and bash has array support you might be able to store the pids of "our" dd instances in an array and loop over them. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs