Re: wait queue process state

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:01:43PM -0700, jw schultz wrote:
> The read system call is interuptable, period.  Disk access
> is considered slow.   If you code asuming it will not be
> interupted or that an interupt will cause a return of -1
> your code may break on Linux and will certainly not be
> portable.

Linux does not permit interrupting regular file reads on local disks; 
only NFS supports it.  Maybe 2.5 is the time to change this.

		-ben