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Date: | Tue, 1 Nov 2005 07:50:21 -0500 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: signals and read blocking - EINTR |
Message-ID: | <20051101125021.GA2540@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> |
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References: | <S576857AbVKAJkB/20051101094004Z+331 AT sunkay DOT cs DOT ualberta DOT ca> |
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On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:40:00AM -0700, Jim Easton wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:49:30PM -0700, Jim Easton wrote: >>>I'm wondering what am I missing? Is there a flag in sigaction or >>>something else that I could be setting? >> >>Yes. SA_RESTART is the flag. > >and then Samuel Thibault wrote: >>No: he wants to be _interrupted_. SA_RESTART is used for _not_ being >>interrupted, i.e. the system restarts the system call itself. > >Thank you both for your help. It's quite true that I do want to be >interrupted and SA_RESTART is to prevent it. Which was my point, actually. I do kinda know this stuff. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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