Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:10:19 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers |
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On 2 Aug 2002, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Would you therefore be planning on making down() interruptible by > SIGKILL?
Can't do - existing users know that down() cannot fail.
But we already have a "down_interruptible()", so if we introduce the notion of "non-interruptible but killable", we can also introduce a "down_killable()".
Linus
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