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Von: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> > > Changing EINTR > > to ERESTARTSYS is likely to have more impact on userland (though > > it still strikes me as a desirable gola to have all system calls > > restartable via SA_RESTART). > > This is certainly a nice goal but it changes the current ABI. Yes, it does. > Therefore > it cannot be anything but an option and I don't assume we want to add so > much cruft for just this. There must be some framework for changing the kernel ABI over time. We can't remain forever stuck with an ABI behaviour because of the development model (i.e., no 2.7/2.8). And it probably would not be that much code change to achieve the result? Cheers, Michael -- "Feel free" – 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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