1.2.9 unstable ? (was [OpenAFS] inaccessibble volume - please help)

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 6 Jun 2003 15:48:24 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Be careful which kernel you're testing on...  I would recommend
> you test against a variety of problem.  About this time last year
> I was working with Gerry on this exact same issue and noticed that
> the signal behavior was different on a few different Linux kernels.
> Finding something that works on ALL of them was problematic (and clearly
> we didn't get all the corner cases handled).

Effectively we added flush_signals() in a case where we don't care about
any pending signals we had. Suggest a way this might be harmful?