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This is a test of the BTS, please ignore.
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On 11/1/2013 3:42 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Phillip, given the above background, would you be willing to modify
> the libuuid package to use /bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin instead
> of /bin/sh for the shell for the libuuid user?
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Phillip Susi
* Package name: e2defrag
Version : 0.79
Upstream Author : Phillip Susi
* URL : http://launchpad.net/e2defrag
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
On 6/2/2011 8:33 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
In general, the reason for this rule about satisfying dependencies is
that a triggering package may well not be functional at all until the
trigger is run. For example, if the triggering package T needs to be
registered with the interested package I, a pac
On 3/3/2011 1:32 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Don't you mean it MAY be initiated if the cache decides there is enough
> memory pressure? I don't know of any other call besides fsync and
> friends to force the writeback so before that is called, it could ( and
> likely is if you
On 3/3/2011 1:30 PM, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Actually, this was discarded early on, as Linux does not implement
> aio_fsync() for any file system. Also the interface is quite cumbersome
> as it requires to keep state for each aio operation, and using SA_SIGINFO
> (which is not yet available everywhe
On 3/3/2011 12:49 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> That's wrong. The writeback is initiated before the fsync() so the
> filesystem can order the write how it wants.
Don't you mean it MAY be initiated if the cache decides there is enough
memory pressure? I don't know of any other call besides fsync an
I have another proposal. It looks like right now dpkg extracts all of
the files in the archive, then for each one, calls fsync() then
rename(). Because this is done serially for each file in the archive,
it forces small, out of order writes that cause extra seeking and queue
plugging. It would b
Christof Krüger wrote:
Unfortunately, computer designers, technicians etc. are not living in an
isolated world (well.. maybe some of them).
No one wants to forbid the computer people to use base 2 numbers. They
are just asked to write KiB instead of KB if they mean base 2
quantities, because the
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