Talking about sigaction(SA_RESTART) vs looping around -EINTR everywhere: On Tuesday 10 July 2007 8:57:34 pm Yigael Fleishman wrote: > Rob, > Thanks, that should also work. > Seems do_sigaction() in linux-user/signal.c has some code which does that > (though obviously not for the signal that I'm receiving). > Any idea why SA_RESTART calls are not invoked by default to restart > syscalls for all signals?
Fallout from old 1980's-era Unixes that didn't implement SA_RESTART, basically. Standards like SUSv3 say to humor them, because they paid for the standard... http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0507.1/1065.html > --Yigael Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson.
