Help with 4.3 mod to kill uninteruptable procs.

Y. Rock Lee rock at cbnews.att.com
Fri Feb 22 02:06:24 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb20.232118.11035 at odin.diku.dk> thorinn at diku.dk (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) writes:
>The first class you probably shouldn't mess with. If you're lucky,
>removing the sleeping process will only result in the loss of some
>buffer. In worse cases, you get permanently un-openable devices or
>crashes. The real cure for these is to rewrite _each_case_ to sleep at
>interruptible priority and clean up properly (more than a class
>project, I think).

[this is a guess, not an argument]

The "permanently un-openable devices" can only happen in the case of open.
Because open wasn't "complete" so the close call in the exit cannot do a
correct clean up. Please correct me if I miss something.


Y. Rock Lee, att!cblph!rock
             rock at cblph.ATT.COM



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