* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ok, that should work fine already - exit in the user context gets
>
> That would be a little heavy handed. I wouldn't expect my GUI program
> to quit itself on cancel. And requiring it to create a new thread just
> to exit on cancel would be also nasty.
>
> And of course you cannot interrupt blocked IOs this way right now
> (currently it only works with signals in some cases on NFS)
ok. The TID+signal approach i mentioned in the other reply should work.
If it's frequent enough we could make this an explicit
sys_async_cancel(TID) API.
Ingo
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