On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > if (in_async_context()) > return -EINVAL; > > or similar. We need that "async_context()" function anyway for the other > cases where we can't do other things concurrently, like changing the UID.
Yes, that's definitely better. Let's have the policy about weather a syscall is or is not async-enabled, inside the syscall itself. Simplify things a lot. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/