Re: manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:10:19 -0700 (PDT)


On 2 Aug 2002, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> Would you therefore be planning on making down() interruptible by
> SIGKILL?

Can't do - existing users know that down() cannot fail.

But we already have a "down_interruptible()", so if we introduce the
notion of "non-interruptible but killable", we can also introduce a
"down_killable()".

Linus

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