Re: strace, accept(), ERESTARTSYS and EINTR

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

"Phil Endecott" <phil_wueww_endecott@chezphil.org> writes:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> "Phil Endecott" <phil_wueww_endecott@chezphil.org> writes:
>>
>>> However, there's a lot of code and I know that there are bugs in it.  I
>>> just want to focus on the kernel-related issue that the strace fragment
>>> that I posted brings up:  even if my user code gets completely screwed up
>>> (corrupts its stack, runs out of FDs/VM/threads etc), I don't think that I
>>> should see in the strace output that accept() has returned
>>> ERESTARTSYS.
>>
>> strace always sees the raw return value, before the signal handler is
>> executed and before the check for syscall restart is done.
>
> Yes, but I should see the real final return value in another strace output
> line before I see that thread doing something else.  Correct?

No.  As far as strace is concerned the syscall has finished.  Since it
isn't restarted, you won't see it again in the trace.

Andreas.

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