>>>>> "David" == David Herrmann <dh.herrm...@gmail.com> writes:
David> Hi David> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:43 PM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: >> If the justification for why this needs to be in the kernel is that you >> can't reliably prevent apps from exiting if there are pending messages, [...] David> It's not. >> the answer of "preventing apps from exiting if there are pending messages >> isn't a sane thing to try and do" is a direct counter to that justification >> for including it in the kernel. David> It's optionally used for reliable exit-on-idle. Then why is there a critical race that must be solved in the kernel if it's optional? And can you please describe in more detail what this 'exit-on-idle' thing is and how it works and why you would use it? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
