> "Unix tradition (and thus almost all applications) believe file store > writes to > be non signal interruptible. It would not be safe or practical to > change that > guarantee." Yep everyone codes write(disk_file, "foo", 3); not while(..) blah around it. > For these two reasons then it would seem best we do two things > actually: > > 1) return -EINTR instead of -EAGAIN when we detect > swait_event_interruptible_timeout() > got interrupted by a signal (it returns -ERESTARTSYS) > 2) Do as you note below and add wait_event_killable_timeout() Pedantic detail that I don't think affects you If you have completed a part of the I/O then you should return the byte processed count not EINTR, but -1,EINTR if no progress was made. Alan -- 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
