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Re: Blocking I/O and rmmod

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:57:49PM -0600, David Stroupe wrote:
> The biggest concern that I have is that the user app crashes and can not 
> send/do anything.  My driver is still hanging out trying to service the 
> blocked request.  Under those circumstances I have two concerns.  What 

Your driver wait will be interrupted with signal SIGSEGV ( or SIGBUS (?) )
,provided you are in interruptible wait. You clean up here and when
return user mode, application can crash.

Regards,
Sourav

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