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SubjectRe: Strange Linux behaviour with blocking syscalls and stop signals+SIGCONT
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:02:12AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> There have been ABI changes in the past. In the end, I assume
> it's a question of relative desirability ("how broken is existing
> behaviour"; or: "was that behaviour ever desirable/portable
> anyway?") versus relative likelihood of breaking applications.

In futex(2) case (except FUTEX_LOCK_PI where we want it to be restartable),
getting EINTR rather than the getting the syscall restarted is very
desirable though and several NPTL routines rely on it.

Jakub
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