* Michal Hocko <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Why? Each syscall already is killable as the task might be killed by the
> > > OOM
> > > killer.
> >
> > Not all syscalls are interruptible - for example sys_sync() isn't:
>
> I guess we are talking past each other. [...]
Heh, you are being polite, I think what happened is that I was being dense and
didn't understand your point:
> [...] What I meant was that while all syscalls are allowed to not return to
> the
> userspace because the task might get killed but not all of them accept to get
> interrupted by a signal and return with EINTR. None of the man page of mmap,
> mremap, mlock, mprotect list EINTR as a possibility so I would be really
> afraid
> of returning an unexpected error code.
Indeed.
> Does this make more sense now?
It does!
Thanks,
Ingo
