It is especially difficult when the driver has complex timing and/or hardware 
flags. Interrupting these calls usually lead to unretriable failures. 

> On Feb 26, 2020, at 11:41 AM, Peter Kleiweg <pklei...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
> That leaves the problem that often, the program just waits forever in C code, 
> not returning an interrupted system call.
> 
> Op woensdag 26 februari 2020 16:14:38 UTC+1 schreef Ian Lance Taylor:
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 7:11 AM Manlio Perillo <manlio...@gmail.com> wrote: 
>> > 
>> > On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 3:51:54 PM UTC+1, Peter Kleiweg wrote: 
>> >> 
>> >> Op woensdag 26 februari 2020 13:05:40 UTC+1 schreef Manlio Perillo: 
>> >>> 
>> >>> On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 12:33:05 PM UTC+1, Peter Kleiweg 
>> >>> wrote: 
>> >>>> 
>> >>>> With Go version 1.14 I get a lot of errors when I run: 
>> >>>> 
>> >>>>     go test -v github.com/pebbe/zmq4 
>> >>>> 
>> >>>> I didn't see this with Go 1.13.8 or any earlier version. 
>> >>>> 
>> >>>> Is this a problem with Go 1.14, or am I doing something wrong and just 
>> >>>> got lucky until now? 
>> >>>> 
>> >>>> How do I debug this? The errors are different for each run. Below is a 
>> >>>> sample of some errors. 
>> >>>> Line numbers are not always accurate, because I inserted some calls to 
>> >>>> test.Log(). 
>> >>> 
>> >>> 
>> >>> The errors are probably caused by https://golang.org/doc/go1.14#runtime. 
>> >>> 
>> >>> The solution is to update zmq4  to explicitly handle interrupted system 
>> >>> calls. 
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> Often the program freezes before I get an interrupted system call. It 
>> >> hangs inside a ZeroMQ C++ library function. 
>> >> zmq4 is just a wrapper for ZeroMQ. I can't "fix" ZeroMQ to make it work 
>> >> with Go. 
>> >> 
>> >> Is there a way to stop Go from interrupting my system calls? It happens 
>> >> rather randomly all over the place. 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36040547/zeromq-how-to-react-on-different-signal-types-on-eintr
>> >  
>> > 
>> > ZeroMQ may return an EINTR error , but zmq4 does not list it in errors.go. 
>> > ZeroMQ asks the caller to handle EINTR, so zmq4 should handle it 
>> > internally or return it to the caller. 
>> > 
>> > https://golang.org/doc/go1.14#runtime should have mentioned that not only 
>> > programs that use packages like syscall or golang.org/x/sys/unix will see 
>> > more slow system calls fail with EINTR errors, but also programs that use 
>> > Cgo. 
>> 
>> I don't know ZeroMQ.  If the ZeroMQ calls correspond closely to system 
>> calls, then it could work for them to return EINTR.  In that case the 
>> fix is going to be for the Go wrapper around ZeroMQ to check whether 
>> the error returned is syscall.EINTR, and to retry the call if it is. 
>> 
>> Ian 
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