Re: Fw: sigwait() breaks when straced

[Dave Airlie]

> 
> However, there is in fact no bug here.  The test program is just wrong.
> sigwait returns zero or an error number, as POSIX specifies.  Conversely,
> sigtimedwait and sigwaitinfo either return 0 or set errno and return -1.
> It is odd that the interfaces of related functions differ in this way,
> but they do.

The someone should fix the manpage, it explicitly says
"The sigwait function never returns an error."

Which is clearly wrong if it can return EINTR...

Dave.
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