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From: meulenbr@cstw01.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: bug in minix fs/devicce.c (causing deadlock)
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Date: 24 Apr 89 07:06:34 GMT
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Reply-To: meulenbr@cstw01.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks)
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Oops, forgot to tell one thing:

If the action cancelled is a read action, my fix discards the data read
which may be annoying when reading from a tty. 
On the other hand, signals can come on a lot of places, and if you
issue a longjump in your interrupt handler it really doesn't matter.

regards,
Frans Meulenbroeks        (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl)
	Centre for Software Technology
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