Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 3/3] Freezer: Replace the timeout

Pavel Machek
2007-08-05T22:53:04Z

Hi!

> > > Anyway, eventually, I'd like the freezer to detect failures relatively early,
> > > so the user won't have to wait 20s each time it's going to fail.
> >
> > It should not fail ;-). And failures are _really_ rare these days. Is
> > 20second wait in case of kernel bug that bad? (FUSE case _is_ a kernel
> > bug, I'm just not sure how to solve it. It is still rare.)
>
> Well, not very bad, but still. Perhaps we should use a progress meter of
> some kind to let the user know that something's going on. ;-)

Maybe we should move the process freezing to userspace :-))).

Wait... that would do the trick. We would blame userspace for FUSE
problems, then ;-).
Pavel
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