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Subject: Re: [9fans] how to interrupt a program doing a read on a mounted service?
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue,  9 Apr 2002 10:19:36 -0400
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> When I hit the DEL key in a rio with a program, say cat, that is reading
> from a mounted file system, it ignores the interrupt.  How should it behave?

It seems more likely that your mounted file
system does not respond to flush messages
in a timely manner.  Cat won't exit until the
kernel has successfully flushed the read that
it started.

Russ