Re: manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers

Roman Zippel
2002-08-01T21:12:17Z

Hi,

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Go read the standards. Some IO is not interruptible.

Which standard? Which "some IO"?
Some programs rely on interruptable IO, e.g. to implement timeouts.
/me is confused.

bye, Roman