On Mon, 7 May 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > On 5/7/07, Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > read(2) is a cancellation point too. So if the fine userspace code issues > > a random pthread_cancel() to a thread handling that, data is lost together > > with the session that thread was handling. > > This is absolutely not comparable. When read/write is canceled no > data is lost. Some other thread might have to pick up the slack but > that's it.
Ohh, is it different? Please, it is not even worth to show you how exactly the same is. Because you are perfectly aware of it. > We went over this for kevent discussions. I really am not willing to > do it all again especially since there is no hope to achieve a > satisfying result with poll. So, don't count my silence as agreement, > it isn't. You're climbing mirrors AFAICS, more that bringing any valid points. And as far as I'm concerned, this thread is becoming very repetitive and boring. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
