On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 16:08 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:58:30 -0400 > bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > From: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > If the client loses a lock, we send SIGIO to the application to notify > > it. The application can then handle the error from there. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Would SIGLOST be a better choice? Linux hasn't supported that > historically, but we could add it. SIGLOST is 'defined' in the kernel as follows: #define SIGIO 29 #define SIGPOLL SIGIO /* #define SIGLOST 29 */ IOW: it is synonymous with SIGPOLL and SIGIO. This explains Bryan's choice. Cheers Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
