Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:12:58 +1000 | From | Dave Airlie <> | Subject | Re: Fw: sigwait() breaks when straced |
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> > However, there is in fact no bug here. The test program is just wrong. > sigwait returns zero or an error number, as POSIX specifies. Conversely, > sigtimedwait and sigwaitinfo either return 0 or set errno and return -1. > It is odd that the interfaces of related functions differ in this way, > but they do.
The someone should fix the manpage, it explicitly says "The sigwait function never returns an error."
Which is clearly wrong if it can return EINTR...
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