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Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 02:57:53 -0500
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xfsqa: add delayed allocation @ ENOSPC exerciser
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:31:22AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:56:19AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I only put it there to make sure they all died when I ^C'd out of a
> test run while testing the test. I forgot to remove it - I'll drop
> it from the patch.

Ok with that change.  Although beeing able to Ctrl+C testcase is a nice
gimmick to have.

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