Re: wait_for_completion_timeout problem ???

[Eli Cohen]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 15:28 +0100, Dmitry Adamushko wrote:

> So either all the users of wait_for_completion_timeout() should
> additionally check for x->done after they got scheduled
> 
> or
> 
> wait_for_completion_timeout() should return something different that
> encodes the fact /event happened/ and not just /event happened _and_ a
> caller has got scheduled back earlier than timeout.
> 

The second suggestion makes sense to me more and is more portable then
the first one.

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