From: "Joshua Hudson" <joshudson@gmail.com>
To: "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wait4/waitpid/waitid oddness
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 19:09:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bda6d13a0604061909u69dd8453me4c9b96cca8d34f5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <787b0d920604052038i3a75bdb6ic0818d93805b881b@mail.gmail.com>
On 4/5/06, Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com> wrote:
> The kernel prohibits:
>
> 1. WNOHANG on waitpid/wait4
> 2. __WALL on waitid
>
> Why? I need both at once.
Why don't you try removing the checks and see if anything breaks. My instinct
says that waitid is less likely to break.
I'm the guy who removed the check in link() about source is a directory, found
out what broke, and am working on a patch to fix all the resulting breakage.
Your task is apt to be a lot simpler.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-07 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-06 3:38 Albert Cahalan
2006-04-07 2:09 ` Joshua Hudson [this message]
2006-04-07 5:38 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-04-07 6:40 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-04-07 6:50 ` Neil Brown
2006-04-07 7:09 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-04-07 18:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-07 18:58 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-04-07 19:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-07 19:24 ` Joshua Hudson
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