Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:39:10 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC] fsfreeze: moving from uniterruptible to killable | From | Marco Stornelli <> |
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2013/3/26 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>: > On Sun 24-03-13 10:10:59, Marco Stornelli wrote: >> When a fs is frozen, a process can hang because we wait in >> uniterruptible state. We give the user the possibility to kill the process. > Yes, but it needs slightly more work as you probably know... (bailing out > properly when the signal arrives). > > Honza >
Of course, indeed, it was only an RFC to start a discussion, not a patch :) The point was: is this kind of change a behaviour that can break user-space in some way? IMHO no, but I'd like to have a discussion about that before to start coding. What do you think?
Marco
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