On Wednesday January 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In looking at the Linux code for ERESTARTNOHAND, I see that > include/linux/errno.h says this errno should never make it to the user. > However, in this instance we ARE seeing it. Looking around on google shows > others are seeing it as well, though hits are few. .. > > Thoughts?
Just a 'me too' at this point. The X server on my shiny new notebook (Core 2 Duo) occasionally dies with 'select' repeatedly returning ERESTARTNOHAND. It is most annoying! You don't mention in the Email which kernel version you use but I see from the web page you reference it is 2.6.19.1. I'm using 2.6.18.something. I thought I'd have a quick look at the code, comparing i386 to x86-64 and guess what I found..... On x86-64, regs->rax is "unsigned long", so the following is needed.... I haven't tried it yet. NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ### Diffstat output ./arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff .prev/arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.c ./arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.c --- .prev/arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.c 2007-01-11 11:33:27.000000000 +1100 +++ ./arch/x86_64/kernel/signal.c 2007-01-11 11:34:01.000000000 +1100 @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ handle_signal(unsigned long sig, siginfo /* Are we from a system call? */ if ((long)regs->orig_rax >= 0) { /* If so, check system call restarting.. */ - switch (regs->rax) { + switch ((long)regs->rax) { case -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK: case -ERESTARTNOHAND: regs->rax = -EINTR; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/