Re: Strange Linux behaviour with blocking syscalls and stop signals+SIGCONT

[Ulrich Drepper]

Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Is it necessary that the futex syscall ignores SA_RESTART?

You might break some incorrectly written code this wait.  sem_wait(),
one example, directly exposes the EINTR error to program.  That behavior
would change from what it is today, better or worse depends on the
situation.

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