Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:20:51 -0700 | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Subject | Re: Strange Linux behaviour with blocking syscalls and stop signals+SIGCONT |
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Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Yes; this is why I'm only proposing to change EINTR to ERESTARTNOHAND > at the moment. The only userspace visible change that I think > this will bring about is in the stop+SIGCONT case.
That's fine.
> 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. Therefore it cannot be anything but an option and I don't assume we want to add so much cruft for just this.
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