Re: [PATCH] Re: today's futex changes

Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08T20:08:19Z

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > D: 4) Andrew Morton says spurious wakeup is a bug. Catch it.
>
> Yes, but going BUG() is a bit rude. We can detect the error, we can
> recover from it and it doesn't cause any user data corruption or anything.
> A rude printk is all that is needed here.

Well, it should really _never_ happen. We are very careful. Is
there something like BUG() which doesn't terminate the process?

-- Jamie