Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:26:26 +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:
> > really, what's the point behind aio_cancel()? > > The main use case is when you open a file requester on a network file > system where the server is down and you get tired of waiting and press > "Cancel" it should abort the hanging IO immediately.
ok, that should work fine already - exit in the user context gets propagated to all async syslet contexts immediately. So if the syscalls that the syslet uses are reasonably interruptible, it will work out fine.
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