[PATCH 1/3] xfsqa: add delayed allocation @ ENOSPC exerciser
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Thu Mar 4 01:57:53 CST 2010
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:31:22AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:56:19AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:19:20PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > + killall -9 dd > /dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > This seems a bit dangerous. I have at least one old system that
> > uses dd to continously read the kernel message buffer in the
> > background, and there's tons of other potential dd uses.
>
> I only put it there to make sure they all died when I ^C'd out of a
> test run while testing the test. I forgot to remove it - I'll drop
> it from the patch.
Ok with that change. Although beeing able to Ctrl+C testcase is a nice
gimmick to have.
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