Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:43:22 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/11] ANNOUNCE: "Syslets", generic asynchronous system call support |
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* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > ok, that should work fine already - exit in the user context gets > > That would be a little heavy handed. I wouldn't expect my GUI program > to quit itself on cancel. And requiring it to create a new thread just > to exit on cancel would be also nasty. > > And of course you cannot interrupt blocked IOs this way right now > (currently it only works with signals in some cases on NFS)
ok. The TID+signal approach i mentioned in the other reply should work. If it's frequent enough we could make this an explicit sys_async_cancel(TID) API.
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