Re: strace, accept(), ERESTARTSYS and EINTR

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Sat Jan 05 2008 - 14:50:53 EST


"Phil Endecott" <phil_wueww_endecott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Sorry for being dense, but what is the implication of your comment "Since
> it isn't restarted" ? Are you saying that the kernel isn't going to
> restart it and will have converted it to EINTR and returned that to
> user-space, and that this modified return value is not reported by strace?

Yes, assuming there was a signal handler and it wasn't registered with
SA_RESTART.

Andreas.

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