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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708292136530.25853@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:38:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] TASK_KILLED
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> I've long hated the non-killability of tasks accessing a dead
> NFS server. Linus had an idea for fixing this way back in 2002:
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.0/0167.html which
> I've prototyped in this patch.
Hey, I obviously approve. And the patch looks simple.
Feel free to re-submit after 2.6.23 is out the door, I don't think
anybody will really complain. Any NFS user will know why something like
this can be really nice.
Linus
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