On Wed 27-03-13 12:39:10, Marco Stornelli wrote: > 2013/3/26 Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>: > > On Sun 24-03-13 10:10:59, Marco Stornelli wrote: > >> When a fs is frozen, a process can hang because we wait in > >> uniterruptible state. We give the user the possibility to kill the process. > > Yes, but it needs slightly more work as you probably know... (bailing out > > properly when the signal arrives). > > > > Honza > > > > Of course, indeed, it was only an RFC to start a discussion, not a > patch :) The point was: is this kind of change a behaviour that can > break user-space in some way? IMHO no, but I'd like to have a > discussion about that before to start coding. What do you think? Killable wait is almost always safe WRT to userspace breakage. In this case I cannot see how it could matter. That's why I agree it's a good thing to do. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
