I am not sure. I would expect a retry / polling / other, if any, toShouldn't we aim to make sure that user space code does not have to use busy waiting?
be done in user-space and not in the kernel. e.g. a common practice
in the code that send SG_IO or other ioctls is to retry on EBUSY. Not
sure that this is the case in ufs-utils though.