On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 09:38:27PM -0500, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: > This effort focused on writes only. > > >From the point of view of the application/user, reads are usually > required to complete with success. I don't see a scenario where reads() > would need the nowait feature. If there is a use case, I'd be happy to > add and support it. Both of them usually have a point. And if they would block the main thread we'll have to offload them to a thread pool. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html