Re: manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers

Kai Henningsen
2002-08-02T09:37:45Z

galibert@pobox.com (Olivier Galibert) wrote on 01.08.02 in <20020801203140.A3166@zalem.puupuu.org>:

> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 04:30:40PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > And yes, these logging programs are mission-critical, and they do have
> > signals going on, and they rely on well-defined and documented interfaces
> > that say that doing a write() to a filesystem is _not_ going to return in
> > the middle just because a signal came in.
>
> How hard and/or insane would it be to somehow special-case SIGKILL?

Thank you for reading the thread before jumping in.

(Hint: some messages upthread, Linux explained how to do exactly this.)

MfG Kai