In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luoqi Chen writes:
>I'd like to add something about the last buffer wouldn't sync. This occurs
>when a shutdown syscall is issued when the syncer process is asleep waiting
>for a buffer write to complete. The write will never complete, because the
>syncer won't be given a chance to run again, and the buffer will stay marked
>as busy and become the buffer that wouldn't sync. I haven't thought about
>a clean way of handling this situation, maybe some of you out there have
>better ideas...
I always thought it would make sense to have the syncer perform the shutdown
and cleanup since it had code to write buffers with anyway...
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