torvalds@transmeta.com said:
> Any regular file IO is supposed to give you the full result.
read(2) is permitted to return -EINTR. Granted, we shouldn't allow it to be
interrupted and return a partial read after the point we start to
copy_to_user(), but before then it's fair game.
Regular file I/O through the page cache is inherently restartable, anyway,
as long as you're careful about fpos.
There are better examples where you really can't have a cleanup path without
severe pain, even using ERESTARTNOINTR, and I was only joking about removing
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE _entirely_ -- but the point remains that reducing its
usage would be nice.
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