On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Al Viro wrote: > > Welcome to reality... > > * bread() is non-interruptible > * so's copy_from_user()/copy_to_user() > * IO we are stuck upon _might_ be interruptible, but by sending a signal > to some other process We can probably improve on these, though. Like the copy_to/from_user thing. We might well be able to do that whole "if it's a fatal signal, return early" thing. So in the _general_ case - no, we probably can't fix things. But we could likely at least improve in some common cases if we cared. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html