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Re: Syster call restarting problem



On 06/06/07, Neo Jia <neojia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi,

I read the post http://lkml.org/lkml/2002/12/18/218 about how to deal
with the restarting system call. But still cannot get it.

Maybe, the basic question should be what is a "restarting system call".


Some system calls can be interrupted by signals and return EINTR before completing their work. You can use sigaction() with the SA_RESTART flag to make it so that after the signal handler is called the system call is automatically restarted.

Can anyone here give me any hints?

see "man 2 sigaction", and this page may also be of use to you:
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/lk/lk-4.html - see the section on
"Interrupted system calls".


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