From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Michael Kerrisk <michael.kerrisk@gmx.net>
Cc: mtk-manpages@gmx.net, mtk-lkml@gmx.net, rlove@rlove.org,
roland@redhat.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, torvalds@osdl.org,
tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
manfred@colorfullife.com
Subject: Re: Strange Linux behaviour with blocking syscalls and stop signals+SIGCONT
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:20:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44ADFD43.4040204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060707050731.186770@gmx.net>
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Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Yes; this is why I'm only proposing to change EINTR to ERESTARTNOHAND
> at the moment. The only userspace visible change that I think
> this will bring about is in the stop+SIGCONT case.
That's fine.
> 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. Therefore
it cannot be anything but an option and I don't assume we want to add so
much cruft for just this.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-07 6:20 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 [this message]
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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