> How is a syscall-level timeout more useful than a whole-application watchdog for handling flaky mounted filesystems? It's more useful because once you enter

> How is a syscall-level timeout more useful than a whole-application watchdog for handling flaky mounted filesystems? It's more useful because once you enter into a syscall, it's out of the application's control. The kernel's off in its happy place doing whatever it does, and the application has no control over that other than being able to specify timeouts to begin with or having async epoll-like interfaces.