Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:19:04 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET 0/6 version 2] kmod: Optional timeout on the wait in call_usermodehelper_exec |
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On 03/27, Andrew Morton wrote: > > IOW, please explain at some length why you need this. Do you think > that there are existing call sites which can usefully use this feature? > Do you expect that new callers are likely to need this? etcetera.
Cough. Can't resist... Could you also explain why http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=133252084301205 can't work?
To clarify, I am just curious, I am not arguing. I am asking because if UMH_WAIT_PROC(timeout) fails with -ETIMEDOUT, then perhaps it makes sense to not "leak" the user-space process servicing the kernel request we were waiting for.
Oleg.
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