Re: sigwait() breaks when straced

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Sun Jul 31 2005 - 13:01:46 EST


On 7/30/05, Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> so the return value should not be 4 (or the docs are not right).

This return value simply indicated EINTR (sigwait does not set errno,
read the docs).

The kernel simply doesn't restart the function in case of a signal.
It should do this, though.
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