On 2006-08-09, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, poof, no more indefinite blocking states in the kernel for NFS or > for the upcoming userland VFS or clustering. > > There will be fine-grained range locks to maintain UNIX atomicy > requirements, but since they aren't going to be hard locks they won't > prevent basic things like ^C from working properly.
Btw, what does "^C working properly" mean? AFAIK SUS says/implies that filesystem related syscalls shouldn't be interruptible, with the exception of read and write. Csaba
