Re: [PATCH] v9fs: signal handling fixes

[Andrew Morton]

Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> +	clear_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);

It is unusual and arguably inappropriate for a filesystem to be playing
with thread flags in this manner.

There are no comments in there explaining why this is happening (there
should be: unusual and surprising things should always be commented, no?)
so I must ask on a mailing list.

What's going on in there?
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