Re: manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers

Trond Myklebust
2002-08-02T17:53:59Z

>>>>> " " == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> "Which is what we want in generic_file_read() (and _probably_
> generic_file_write() as well, but that's slightly more
> debatable)"

A frequent cause of complaints with the NFS client 'intr' mount option
is that grabbing the inode semaphore too is uninterruptible, and hence
even a lookup() can hang.
Would you therefore be planning on making down() interruptible by
SIGKILL?

Cheers,
Trond