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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > ok, that should work fine already - exit in the user context gets
> 
> That would be a little heavy handed. I wouldn't expect my GUI program 
> to quit itself on cancel. And requiring it to create a new thread just 
> to exit on cancel would be also nasty.
> 
> And of course you cannot interrupt blocked IOs this way right now 
> (currently it only works with signals in some cases on NFS)

ok. The TID+signal approach i mentioned in the other reply should work. 
If it's frequent enough we could make this an explicit 
sys_async_cancel(TID) API.

	Ingo
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