On 03/27, Andrew Morton wrote: > > IOW, please explain at some length why you need this. Do you think > that there are existing call sites which can usefully use this feature? > Do you expect that new callers are likely to need this? etcetera. Cough. Can't resist... Could you also explain why http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=133252084301205 can't work? To clarify, I am just curious, I am not arguing. I am asking because if UMH_WAIT_PROC(timeout) fails with -ETIMEDOUT, then perhaps it makes sense to not "leak" the user-space process servicing the kernel request we were waiting for. Oleg. -- 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