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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Jason Riedy <ejr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use sigaction and SA_RESTART in read-tree.c; add option in Makefile.
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 21:40:10 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604022139100.3781@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7j67i93f.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jason Riedy <ejr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
> 
> > Also add a NO_SA_RESTART option in the Makefile in case someone
> > doesn't have SA_RESTART but does restart (maybe older HP/UX?).
> > We want the builder to chose this specifically in case the
> > system both lacks SA_RESTART and does not restart stdio calls;
> > a compat #define in git-compat-utils.h would silently allow
> > broken systems.
> 
> What am I missing...?

I don't think this part is worth it at least for now.

If there really are systems without SA_RESTART, they probably don't have 
sigaction() either, so #defining SA_RESTART to zero likely won't help.

But somebody can prove me wrong..

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-03  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-02 10:41 Solaris cloning woes partly diagnosed Junio C Hamano
2006-04-02 18:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-02 19:10   ` Jason Riedy
2006-04-02 19:22     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-02 19:18   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-02 19:52     ` Jason Riedy
2006-04-02 20:28       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-02 20:31         ` [PATCH 2/2] pack-objects: be incredibly anal about stdio semantics Linus Torvalds
2006-04-02 21:09           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-02 21:21             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-02 22:12               ` Jason Riedy
2006-04-02 22:58                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-02 22:29         ` [PATCH] Use sigaction and SA_RESTART in read-tree.c; add option in Makefile Jason Riedy
2006-04-03  1:02           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-03  4:20           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-03  4:40             ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-04-03  3:06     ` Solaris cloning woes partly diagnosed Linus Torvalds
2006-04-04 18:21   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-04-04  8:47 ` [RFH] Solaris cloning woes Junio C Hamano
2006-04-04 18:53   ` Jason Riedy

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