From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: mtk-lkml@gmx.net, rlove@rlove.org, roland@redhat.com,
eggert@cs.ucla.edu, paire@ri.silicomp.fr, drepper@redhat.com,
torvalds@osdl.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
michael.kerrisk@gmx.net
Subject: Re: Strange Linux behaviour with blocking syscalls and stop signals+SIGCONT
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:42:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44AD599D.70803@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060706092328.320300@gmx.net>
Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>
>
>>Michael: Could you replace the EINTR in inotify.c with ERESTARTNOHAND?
>>That should prevent the kernel from showing the signal to user space.
>>I'd guess that most instances of EINTR are wrong, except in device
>>drivers: It means we return from the syscall, even if the signal handler
>>wants to restart the system call.
>>
>>
>
>I'll try patching a kernel to s/EINTR/ERESTARTNOHAND/ in relevant
>places, and see how that goes. If it goes well, I'll submit a
>patch.
>
>
>
1) I would go further and try ERESTARTSYS: ERESTARTSYS means that the
kernel signal handler honors SA_RESTART
2) At least for the futex functions, it won't be as easy as replacing
EINTR wiht ERESTARTSYS: the futex functions receive a timeout a the
parameter, with the duration of the wait call as a parameter. You must
use ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK.
--
Manfred
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-06 18:43 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 [this message]
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
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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