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DateSat, 25 Sep 2004 02:44:45 -0700
FromWilliam Lee Irwin III <>
SubjectRe: Add wait_event_timeout()
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:13:59 +0100, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> There appears to be one case missing from the wait_event() family -
>> the uninterruptible timeout wait. The following patch adds this.

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:42:15AM +0100, Jon Masters wrote:
> Any reason it's called wait_event_timeout then rather than
> wait_event_uninterruptible_timeout?

Anything interruptible is explicitly tagged as such; the "default",
sadly enough, is uninterruptible.


-- wli
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