Re: [patch 00/11] ANNOUNCE: "Syslets", generic asynchronous systemcall support

[Davide Libenzi]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 	if (in_async_context())
> 		return -EINVAL;
> 
> or similar. We need that "async_context()" function anyway for the other 
> cases where we can't do other things concurrently, like changing the UID.

Yes, that's definitely better. Let's have the policy about weather a 
syscall is or is not async-enabled, inside the syscall itself. Simplify 
things a lot.



- Davide


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