From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wait queue process state
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 19:05:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020528190518.E21009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CF2A0FB.8090507@um.edu.mt> <1022572663.12203.127.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no> <20020528160143.G885@pegasys.ws>
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:01:43PM -0700, jw schultz wrote:
> The read system call is interuptable, period. Disk access
> is considered slow. If you code asuming it will not be
> interupted or that an interupt will cause a return of -1
> your code may break on Linux and will certainly not be
> portable.
Linux does not permit interrupting regular file reads on local disks;
only NFS supports it. Maybe 2.5 is the time to change this.
-ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-28 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-27 21:11 wait queue process state Joseph Cordina
2002-05-27 15:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-28 7:57 ` Terje Eggestad
2002-05-28 23:01 ` jw schultz
2002-05-28 23:05 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-05-29 0:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-29 10:58 ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-29 12:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-29 11:55 ` Roman Zippel
2002-05-29 13:29 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-29 11:56 ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-31 19:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-05-29 11:25 ` Trond Myklebust
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