From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Cc: feuer@his.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: atomicity
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 11:16:24 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812061016.LAA00459@cave.bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m0zmNHr-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu> from Alan Cox at "Dec 5, 98 07:22:38 pm"
Alan Cox wrote:
> Think about it this way. SIGKILL and a power failure are identical.
Well, I occasionally get processes stuck in "D" state. SIGKILL doesn't
kill them, a power failure does. (Try a filesystem that Oops-es on the
"mount" system call, then retry the mount).
Yeah, I know I've taken your quote out of context. Sorry. :-)
Roger.
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[not found] <m0zmNHr-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu>
1998-12-06 6:07 ` atomicity Tim Smith
1998-12-06 16:42 ` atomicity Alan Cox
1998-12-06 10:16 ` Rogier Wolff [this message]
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