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DateSun, 7 May 2006 17:45:27 +0400
FromSergey Vlasov <>
SubjectRe: [patch 2/6] New Generic HW RNG
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 03:27:33PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:16, you wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 May 2006 15:03, you wrote:
> > > This does not handle the case of partial read correctly - the code
> > > should be
> > > 
> > > 			return ret ? : -ERESTARTSYS;
> 
> Or, hm. Shouldn't we
> return ret ? : err;
> 
> err is -EINTR

-ERESTARTSYS is the proper return code for this case - the signal
handling code will either convert it to EINTR for userspace, or
restart the system call after handling the signal, depending on the
state of the SA_RESTART flag set by sigaction().
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