On Jun 14, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Boris Prohaska wrote:

> Thats exactly the problem. IF the OS was aware of it, then there would be no 
> problem. There is also no setting for timeouts etc when performing blocking 
> operations onto the filesystem.
> Maybe that is a OS X limitation??

The way around it is to not do blocking operations.  Use non-blocking, 
asynchronous I/O operations, and impose the timeout yourself.

-Ken

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