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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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      parent reply	other threads:[~1998-12-06 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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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