Re: manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers

Linus Torvalds
2002-08-02T18:06:01Z

On 2 Aug 2002, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> Would you therefore be planning on making down() interruptible by
> SIGKILL?

Can't do - existing users know that down() cannot fail.

But we already have a "down_interruptible()", so if we introduce the
notion of "non-interruptible but killable", we can also introduce a
"down_killable()".

Linus