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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:10:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers
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On 2 Aug 2002, Trond Myklebust wrote:
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> 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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