Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Apr 2015 21:42:51 -0400 | From | "John Stoffel" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1 |
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>>>>> "David" == David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> writes:
David> Hi David> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:43 PM, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote: >> If the justification for why this needs to be in the kernel is that you >> can't reliably prevent apps from exiting if there are pending messages, [...]
David> It's not.
>> the answer of "preventing apps from exiting if there are pending messages >> isn't a sane thing to try and do" is a direct counter to that justification >> for including it in the kernel.
David> It's optionally used for reliable exit-on-idle.
Then why is there a critical race that must be solved in the kernel if it's optional? And can you please describe in more detail what this 'exit-on-idle' thing is and how it works and why you would use it?
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