Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 02 Aug 2002 19:57:10 +0200 |
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>>>>> " " == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> "Which is what we want in generic_file_read() (and _probably_ > generic_file_write() as well, but that's slightly more > debatable)"
A frequent cause of complaints with the NFS client 'intr' mount option is that grabbing the inode semaphore too is uninterruptible, and hence even a lookup() can hang. Would you therefore be planning on making down() interruptible by SIGKILL?
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