Re: strace, accept(), ERESTARTSYS and EINTR

[Andreas Schwab]

"Phil Endecott" <phil_wueww_endecott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> However, there's a lot of code and I know that there are bugs in it.  I
> just want to focus on the kernel-related issue that the strace fragment
> that I posted brings up:  even if my user code gets completely screwed up
> (corrupts its stack, runs out of FDs/VM/threads etc), I don't think that I
> should see in the strace output that accept() has returned
> ERESTARTSYS.

strace always sees the raw return value, before the signal handler is
executed and before the check for syscall restart is done.

Andreas.

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