Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:47:35 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [patch 00/11] ANNOUNCE: "Syslets", generic asynchronous system call support |
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> ok. The TID+signal approach i mentioned in the other reply should work.
Not sure if a signal is good for this. It might conflict with existing strange historical semantics.
> If it's frequent enough we could make this an explicit > sys_async_cancel(TID) API.
Ideally there should be a new function like signal_pending() that checks for this. Then the network fs could check those in their blocking loops and error out.
Then it would even work on non intr NFS mounts.
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