Joe Zeff writes:
On 05/08/2012 04:17 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:Depending on requirements, the programmer might be able to use aio(7) calls, but it complicates things greatly and AFAIK doesn't guarantee that the program will never wait.If I read the man page correctly, a program can check the status of a call and, if appropriate cancel it.
Did you also happen to read the nfs and the mount.cifs man pages, that give the mount options for remote shares so that processes won't go into uninterruptible sleep when the share goes down, with no changes required to the application?
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