Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [2.5] Non-blocking write can block | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 04 Jun 2003 17:47:29 +0100 |
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On Mer, 2003-06-04 at 15:35, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In general, we shouldn't do this, unless somebody can show an application > where it really matters. Taking internal kernel locking into account for > "blockingness" easily gets quite complicated, and there is seldom any real > point to it.
Hanging shutdown is the obvious one. With 2.0/2.2 we had a similar problem and fixed it.
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