Re: update used the obsolete bdflush

From: vda
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 03:11:41 EST


On Friday 13 February 2004 02:08, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I get this in syslog:
>
> warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call
> Fix your initscripts?
>
> What is this ?

In old days bdflush had to be started by hand at system startup.
Typically it was done by running 'update' which just make
a never-returning syscall. No need anymore, bdflush (2.6: pdflush)
is an automagically started kernel thread.
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vda
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