Re: wait_event_interruptible and signals

[Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:52:46PM -0500, David Stroupe wrote:
> When wait_event_interruptible returns a non-zero (-ERESTARTSYS)value 
> that indicates that it has been interrupted by a signal.  Is there a way 
> to tell what signal interrupted the wait?

From a brief look at the code it seems, that result of signal_pending is
actually a bitmask of signals to be delivered to a process.
(current->signals is mask of all signals and current->blocked is mask of
blocked signals).

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