Hi,
How are we going to do with this patch?
> This patch makes write interruptible by SIGKILL.
Let me try to summarize the objective impacts of (not) merging this
patch, and would like to hear more opinions from experienced users.
- w/o patch
BEHAVIOR:
write(2) insists to complete even when the user really wants to stop it.
IMPACT:
It could be annoying to experience slow responses to "kill -9" when
it's a large write to a slow device, for example,
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/nokia/zero bs=100M
- w/ patch
BEHAVIOR:
write(2) aborts quickly with possible partial write on SIGKILL
IMPACT:
The partial write might lead to data corruption somewhere, sometime
(the possibility is low but real) and bring trouble to some users.
Thanks,
Fengguang
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