Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:18:29 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer when using pipes in core_pattern |
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:00:54 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > > > When was the last time we saw a "warning: process `%s' used the > > obsolete bdflush system call" warning? A quick google here says 2004. > > Is that data? A bit, I guess. > > bdflush?
I don't understand your answer.
Many years ago (guess: 2001/2002) the bdflush() syscall was deprecated and we did
if (msg_count < 5) { msg_count++; printk(KERN_INFO "warning: process `%s' used the obsolete bdflush" " system call\n", current->comm); printk(KERN_INFO "Fix your initscripts?\n"); }
to encourage people to stop using it. A brief search indicates that nobody has reported this message in 4-5 years.
So to answer the question "how long must we leave things in place before removing them?", that's the only data I am aware of.
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