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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Michael Kerrisk <michael.kerrisk@gmx.net>
Cc: mtk-manpages@gmx.net, mtk-lkml@gmx.net, rlove@rlove.org,
	roland@redhat.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, torvalds@osdl.org,
	tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	manfred@colorfullife.com
Subject: Re: Strange Linux behaviour with blocking syscalls and stop signals+SIGCONT
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:20:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44ADFD43.4040204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060707050731.186770@gmx.net>

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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.

-- 
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-07  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-03 14:46 Strange Linux behaviour with blocking syscalls and stop signals+SIGCONT Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-04 19:02 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-06  9:23   ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-06 18:42     ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-06 18:55       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-06 19:02         ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-06 19:10           ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-06 19:18           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-06 19:28             ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-06 19:29               ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-07  4:57             ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-07  5:10               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-07  5:12                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-07 19:43             ` angelo.borsotti
2006-07-07  4:32         ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-07  4:57           ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-07  5:07             ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-07  6:20               ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2006-07-07  7:03                 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-07  7:20                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-07  8:02                     ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-07  9:26                       ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-07-07 13:36                         ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-07  4:28       ` Michael Kerrisk

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