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Subject: Re: accept does not return in case a signal arrives
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mer, 2004-11-03 at 13:26, Gerrit Bruchhäuser wrote:
> Dear Kernel-team,
> 
> on Linux, 'accept' system call does not return in case I send SIGTERM to 
> my application; while it does on OSF-Alpha.

signal() may or may not interrupt some system calls. Use sigaction if
you want to force a given behaviour (and write portable code)