Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Really, that's not so, there are limits. 30 seconds? Whatever.
> Remember, during this time the service provided by the module is
> unavailable, so this is denial-of-service land. You could of
> course put in extra code to abort the unload process on demand,
> but, hmm, it probably wouldn't work ;-)
If you're going to do it right, you should fix that denial-of-service by
waiting until the module has finished unloading and then demand-loading
the module again.
Ideally, those periodic "rmmod -a" calls should _never_ cause a
denial-of-service.
-- Jamie
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