On Thursday, 5 July 2007 16:39, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:41:39PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Thursday, 5 July 2007 16:26, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 04:28:11PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 5 July 2007 15:57, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > > And also "Userland should not depend on userland services", which is > > > > > rather more of a problem. > > > > > > > > I think you're oversimplifying it, as far as FUSE is concerned. > > > > > > > > Namely, if there are two userland tasks, A and B, and B is > > > > uninterruptible, > > > > because A is blocked, then this is not a usual situation. > > > > > > Fuse is one case of it occuring, and if we end up with more userspace > > > drivers then the problem is only going to get worse. > > > > But this is a problem by itself, regardless of the freezer etc., no? > > Why?
You have processes that don't react to signals, because some other user land task is misbehaving. I'd call that ugly at the very least. Greetings, Rafael -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth - 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/
