kill a kernel thread
kill a kernel thread
Posted May 28, 2018 18:28 UTC (Mon) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)In reply to: kill a kernel thread by willy
Parent article: Killing processes that don't want to die
Does this also mean that read() on a file on NFS can give EINTR now?
Posted May 29, 2018 3:23 UTC (Tue)
by willy (subscriber, #9762)
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If it did set a handler, the read() will block indefinitely as before.
kill a kernel thread
No. It means if you ^C a read() and the task hasn't set a handler for SIGTERM, the task will die without waiting for the read to complete.