Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:20:57 +0100 | From | Douglas Leeder <> | Subject | Re: fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > On Wed 2009-08-05 17:46:16, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote: >> On Wednesday 05 August 2009 03:05:34 Pavel Machek wrote:
>> Just to make sure you haven't missed this - it is not that they have to >> complete the whole operation before the timeout period (since you mention >> realtime/mlock I suspect this is what you think?), but _during_ the operation >> they have to show that they are active by sending something like keep alive >> messages. >> >> Or you are worried about failing to meet even that on a loaded system? There >> has to be something like this otherwise hung userspace client would kill the >> whole system. > > Of course, I'm worried about failing to meet this on loaded > system. And the fact that I _have_ to worry about that means that > interface is ugly/broken.
You mean that in 5 seconds, you won't have any point when you can tell the kernel, "I'm still working"?
-- Douglas Leeder
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