Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 07:50:21 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: signals and read blocking - EINTR Message-ID: <20051101125021.GA2540@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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/