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From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set SA_RESTART flag on SIGCHLD handler
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:19:36 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> But if that=E2=80=99s what happened, it seems like a kernel bug to me=
!
> Shouldn=E2=80=99t an open() call only be restarted or return EINTR in=
 the case
> that it hasn=E2=80=99t had any side effects yet and can safely be res=
tarted?

I submitted a kernel patch:
http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D134071285509470

Anders