Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Driver retries disk errors. | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Thu, 02 Sep 2004 15:59:25 +0100 |
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On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 15:30, John Stoffel wrote: > I really think that we need some way to keep such deadlocks from > happening. I really dislike having a device lockup a user application > so hard that it can't be exited. There's no real reason we should be > doing this any more. If we have to, let the user kill it and just > have the kernel make it into a zombie, but at least let the user kill > it off.
If you had to reboot file a bug, none of the block error recovery code or below should ever hang indefinitely.
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