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    SubjectRe: manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers
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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?

    Cheers,
    Trond
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