>That's Russell 8)
>> >Sorry, that's why I said "*If O_NONBLOCK* is specified" (ie. still
>> >drop it for the --wait case).
>>
>> Oops! Sorry for misreading your message.
>>
>> Even though it was not responsive to what you described, I do
>> hope you see my point about the problem with "rmmod --wait".
>But's it's an absolute requirement, to make modules removable in some
>circumstances, otherwise you end up being starved and the module
>cannot be removed (security modules and netfilter modules strike me as
>the obvious cases, but there are probably more).
That may be a drawback, but I would necessarily say that
avoiding those drawbacks is an "absolute requirement" based on the
disadvantages you listed, nor would attaching that label magically
eliminate the problem that I described.
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