Re: [PATCH 0/9] Refactoring exit

[Michael Schmitz]

On 28/06/21 10:13 am, Al Viro wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:45:23PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
>
> > 13) there's bdflush(1, whatever), which is equivalent to exit(0).
> > IMO it's long past the time to simply remove the sucker.
> Incidentally, calling that from ptraced process on alpha leads to
> the same headache for tracer.  _If_ we leave it around, this is
> another candidate for "hit yourself with that special signal" -
> both alpha and m68k have that syscall, and IMO adding an asm
> wrapper for that one is over the top.
>
> Said that, we really ought to bury that thing:
>
> commit 2f268ee88abb33968501a44368db55c63adaad40
> Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Sat Dec 14 03:16:29 2002 -0800
>
>      [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush()
> 	
>      Patch from Robert Love <rml@xxxxxxxxx>
> 		
>      We can never get rid of it if we do not deprecate it - so do so and
>      print a stern warning to those who still run bdflush daemons.
>
> Deprecated for 18.5 years by now - I seriously suspect that we have
> some contributors younger than that...

Haven't found that warning in over 7 years' worth of console logs, and 
I'm a good candidate for running the oldest userland in existence for m68k.

Time to let it go.

Cheers,

    Michael