On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 8:37 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > However, util-linux still resets it to ^O on any architecture, > ^O is the historical value, kernel ignores it anyway and finally, > Linus said "Just change everybody to do the same, nobody cares > about VDISCARD". Heh. Grepping for DISCARD_CHAR() shows that there literally doesn't seem to be any user. I guess some user space program could care what the initial value is, but it seems very unlikely. Linus