Re: Re: Strange Linux behaviour with blocking syscalls and stopsignals+SIGCONT

From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Fri Jul 07 2006 - 01:03:36 EST


Von: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>

> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> >
> > Is it necessary that the futex syscall ignores SA_RESTART?
>
> Very possibly. That was definitely the case for "select()" long ago.

Why was this necesary back then?

Cheers,

Michael

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