linux-kernel - Re: Regression - /proc/kmsg does not (always) block for 1-byte reads

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFwnLJ+0sjx92EGREGTWOx84wwKaraSzpTNJwPVV8edw8g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 6 Jul 2012 15:09:23 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jukka Ollila <jiiksteri@...il.com>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kay@...y.org, jbeulich@...ell.com, greg@...ah.com, joey@...ian.org
Subject: Re: Regression - /proc/kmsg does not (always) block for 1-byte reads

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Jukka Ollila <jiiksteri@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Now this got me wondering if Debian _unstable_ actually qualifies as a
> standard distro userspace.

Oh, if the kernel breaks some standard user space, that counts. Tons
of people run Debian unstable (and from my limited interactions with
it, for damn good reasons: -stable tends to run so old versions of
everything that you have to sometimes deal with cuneiform writing when
using it)

                    Linus
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