Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759195AbXHRX3U (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:29:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759378AbXHRX2y (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:28:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33415 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759187AbXHRX2x (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:28:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Oleg Nesterov X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: Andrew Morton , "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] exec: kill unsafe BUG_ON(sig->count) checks In-Reply-To: Oleg Nesterov's message of Saturday, 18 August 2007 21:39:36 +0400 <20070818173936.GA206@tv-sign.ru> Emacs: it's like swatting a fly with a supernova. Message-Id: <20070818232747.C0F9C4D05C6@magilla.localdomain> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 547 Lines: 13 Those BUG_ON's were there because of past bugs and fragility in the de_thread and exit synchronization stuff. There's no real need to leave them (in fixed form) if we are confident of that stuff working right now, or have other assertions to give us that confidence when we change it. Thanks, Roland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/