Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:24:49 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/23] File descriptor hot-unplug support v2 |
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Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Al Viro wrote: > > Frankly, I very much suspect that force-umount is another case like that; > > we'll need a *lot* of interesting cooperation from fs for that to work and > > to be useful. I'd be delighted to be proven incorrect on that one, so > > if you have anything serious in that direction, please share the details. > > Umm, not sure why we'd need cooperation from the fs. Simply wait for > the operation to exit the filesystem or driver. If it's a blocking > operation, send a signal to interrupt it.
We could even include the internal signal in TASK_KILLABLE, so it interrupts otherwise uninterruptible operations.
-- Jamie
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