From: "Michael Kerrisk" <michael.kerrisk@gmx.net>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tytso@mit.edu, torvalds@osdl.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu,
roland@redhat.com, rlove@rlove.org, mtk-lkml@gmx.net,
mtk-manpages@gmx.net
Subject: Re: Strange Linux behaviour with blocking syscalls and stop signals+SIGCONT
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:03:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060707070334.186790@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44ADFD43.4040204@redhat.com>
Von: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
> > Changing EINTR
> > to ERESTARTSYS is likely to have more impact on userland (though
> > it still strikes me as a desirable gola to have all system calls
> > restartable via SA_RESTART).
>
> This is certainly a nice goal but it changes the current ABI.
Yes, it does.
> Therefore
> it cannot be anything but an option and I don't assume we want to add so
> much cruft for just this.
There must be some framework for changing the kernel ABI over time.
We can't remain forever stuck with an ABI behaviour because
of the development model (i.e., no 2.7/2.8). And it probably
would not be that much code change to achieve the result?
Cheers,
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-07 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-03 14:46 Strange Linux behaviour with blocking syscalls and stop signals+SIGCONT Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-04 19:02 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-06 9:23 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-06 18:42 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-06 18:55 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-06 19:02 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-06 19:10 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-06 19:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-06 19:28 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-06 19:29 ` Manfred Spraul
2006-07-07 4:57 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-07 5:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-07 5:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-11-07 19:43 ` angelo.borsotti
2006-07-07 4:32 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-07 4:57 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-07 5:07 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-07 6:20 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-07 7:03 ` Michael Kerrisk [this message]
2006-07-07 7:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-07 8:02 ` Michael Kerrisk
2006-07-07 9:26 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-07-07 13:36 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-07-07 4:28 ` Michael Kerrisk
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