From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750814AbWGGE5f (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:57:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750925AbWGGE5f (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:57:35 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.21]:47053 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750814AbWGGE5f (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:57:35 -0400 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, roland@redhat.com, rlove@rlove.org, mtk-lkml@gmx.net, mtk-manpages@gmx.net, drepper@redhat.com, manfred@colorfullife.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:57:33 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060707045733.186790@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <44A92DC8.9000401@gmx.net> <44AABB31.8060605@colorfullife.com> <20060706092328.320300@gmx.net> <44AD599D.70803@colorfullife.com> <44AD5CB6.7000607@redhat.com> <44AD5E5C.6070703@colorfullife.com> Subject: Re: Re: Strange Linux behaviour with blocking syscalls and stop signals+SIGCONT To: Linus Torvalds X-Authenticated: #2864774 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) X-Priority: 3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Von: Linus Torvalds > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > > > Is it necessary that the futex syscall ignores SA_RESTART? > > Very possibly. That was definitely the case for "select()" long ago. Why was this necesary back then? Cheers, Michael -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer