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SubjectRe: [RFC] fsfreeze: moving from uniterruptible to killable
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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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