On 05/08/2012 04:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Depending on requirements, the programmer might be able to use aio(7) calls, but it complicates things greatly and AFAIK doesn't guarantee that the program will never wait.
If I read the man page correctly, a program can check the status of a call and, if appropriate cancel it. Going into a loop to wait for results and canceling the request if it hasn't finished after whatever seems to be a reasonable time (Let's ignore, for the moment how that time's picked; it's important, but not yet.) abort the call and return failure. I'm not sure how that could allow for an indefinite hang time, but I won't say it's impossible. Now, the next question becomes if it's worth while doing, or if it's trying to fix a problem that never[1] comes up.
[1]Well, hardly ever. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
