Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Aug 1998 17:20:51 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Request for stats: devfs and kmod errors |
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Richard Henderson writes: > On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 03:28:25PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Its not devfs. request_module() forgets to block signals. > > No, request module _used_ to block all signals. I removed it > cause that was causing bizzare failures at least on Alpha. > > I never really figured out what the precice problem was, cause > after I stopped blocking signals so that I could strace modprobe, > the problem went away. My only guess was that it had to do with > sigchld, as that is the only thing that should have been involved. > > Anyway, an exit code of -512 indicates _exit(-2), not a signal. > And that _shouldn't_ have come from modutils, wherein the only > exit values used are 0 and 1.
Erm, the manpage for waitpid(2) doesn't mention -512 as a possible error. Are you perhaps talking about the int *status value (which we ignore anyway) instead?
Regards,
Richard....
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