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Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:45:16 +0100
From: Julien Ramseier <j.ramseier@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sigtimedwait: allow failing with EINTR
> Le 23 févr. 2018 à 22:45, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> a écrit :
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 01:09:35PM +0100, Julien Ramseier wrote:
>> According to POSIX, sigtimedwait(2) is allowed to fail
>> with EINTR, while sigwait(3) is not, so move the retry loop there.
>> ---
>
> This is a "may fail", not a "shall fail". Generally we prefer not to
> support EINTR in cases where it's optional, since getting rid of them
> with retry loops makes it safe to run on old kernels or
> pseudo-linux-compat systems where SA_RESTART semantics were/are not
> actually conforming. Is there a reason you want it to fail with EINTR?
>
> Rich
Some apps seem to rely on this, notably Python where a test case expects
sigtimedwait to be interrupted when a SIGALRM is fired.
I cannot find another case in musl where EINTR is inhibited
(while being allowed by POSIX), are there any?
- Julien
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