Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Jul 1998 07:20:36 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: Request for stats: devfs and kmod errors |
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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 00:10:13 +1000 From: Richard.Gooch@atnf.csiro.au
Hi, all. I've had at least two reports of errors like: kmod: waitpid(%d,NULL,0) failed, returning = -512.
when using 2.1.11x kernels with my devfs patch (and apparently the errors go away when devfs is not used). Something I'm trying to establish whether anything *actually fails* when this message pops up. I'm starting to suspect that it's an annoying message and nothing more: no functionality is lost.
This smells like signals going to the task loading the module. Perhaps there needs to be some signal masking done in the kmod code paths?
Later, David S. Miller davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
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