Am 25.05.2015 um 18:50 schrieb Oleg Nesterov:
AAAAOn 05/25, Richard Weinberger wrote:
Is this functionality still in use/needed?
All I can say it doesn't work.
Otherwise we could get rid of block_all_signals() and unpuzzle the signaling code a bit. :-)
Yes. I do not even remember when I reported this the first time. Perhaps more than 10 years ago.
See the last attempt in 2011: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/12/263 I copied this email below.
Thank you Oleg, this makes sense. I was actually wondering WTF this function is good for.
Thanks, //richard