signals and read blocking - EINTR

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Tue Nov 1 08:39:00 GMT 2005


Christopher Faylor, le Tue 01 Nov 2005 01:02:40 -0500, a écrit :
> 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.

No: he wants to be _interrupted_. SA_RESTART is used for _not_ being
interrupted, i.e. the system restarts the system call itself.

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