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From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: pselect/etc semantics
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On 05/30, David Laight wrote:
>
> 4) As an optimisation a signal that arrives after the timer
>    expires, but before the mask is restored can be 'deemed'
>    to have happened before the timeout expired and EINTR
>    returned.

This is what pselect/ppoll already does.

Oleg.