Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > really, what's the point behind aio_cancel()?
The main use case is when you open a file requester on a network file system where the server is down and you get tired of waiting and press "Cancel" it should abort the hanging IO immediately. At least I would appreciate such a feature sometimes. e.g. the readdir loop could be a syslet (are they powerful enough to allocate memory for a arbitary sized directory? Probably not) and then the cancel button could async_cancel() it. -Andi - 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/
