Re: User vs. Kernel (was: To be smug, or not to be smug, that is , the question)

Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:30:01 -0800

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On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:03:12PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> For 28456 calls, your apps had to test for a condition that
> did not happen.

Uh, no. That's all done out of line in do_signal.
The application never ever sees a syscall restart.

> It was handled in libc 5...

No it wasn't.

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