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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:20:08 +0200 From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@...eus.cx> To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> CC: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, Amol Lad <amol@...ismonetworks.com>, kernel Janitors <kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org>, linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: most users of msleep_interruptible are broken Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > They clearly don't care about exactness; they msleep_interruptible and > throw away the return value, so they don't know how long they slept > before they got a signal. > It's broken then. That delay function should delay at least the amount given. Rgds Pierre - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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