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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Aaron Wiebe <epiphani@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slow open() calls and o_nonblock
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:42:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1180971726.17737.36.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7ca40f70706040720k48aae8efg7a4997ce1d6f2450@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 10:20 -0400, Aaron Wiebe wrote:
> I understand, but this is exactly the situation that I'm complaining
> about.  There is no functionality to provide a nonblocking open - no
> ability to come back around and retry a given open call.

So exactly how would you expect a nonblocking open to work? Should it be
starting I/O? What if that involves blocking? How would you know when to
try again?

  Trond


  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-04 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-03 18:52 Aaron Wiebe
2007-06-03 19:16 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-03 23:56 ` John Stoffel
2007-06-04  1:05   ` Aaron Wiebe
2007-06-04  1:20     ` Neil Brown
2007-06-04 13:59       ` Aaron Wiebe
2007-06-04  1:25     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-06-04  0:27 ` David Schwartz
2007-06-04  1:05   ` Al Viro
2007-06-04  1:19 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-06-04 13:49 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-04 14:04   ` Aaron Wiebe
2007-06-04 14:17     ` John Stoffel
2007-06-04 14:24       ` Aaron Wiebe
2007-06-04 14:20 ` Aaron Wiebe
2007-06-04 15:42   ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2007-06-04 15:59     ` Aaron Wiebe
2007-06-04 16:26       ` Aaron Wiebe
2007-06-04 19:46         ` Trond Myklebust
2007-06-04 20:32   ` David Schwartz
2007-06-04 14:39 ` Aaron Wiebe
2007-06-04  3:57 Albert Cahalan

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