RE: [RFC PATCH 1/5] signal: Teach sigsuspend to use set_user_sigmask

[David Laight]

From: David Laight
> Sent: 11 June 2019 10:52
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> FWIW is ERESTARTNOHAND actually sane here?
> If I've used setitimer() to get SIGALARM generated every second I'd
> expect select() to return EINTR every second even if I don't
> have a SIGALARM handler?

Actually no - after sigset(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN) I'd expect absolutely
nothing to happen when kill(pid, SIGALRM) is called.

However if I run:

	struct itimerval itimerval = {{1, 0}, {1, 0}};
	setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &itimerval, NULL);
	sigset(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN);

	poll(0, 0, big_timeout);

I see (with strace) poll() repeatedly returning ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK
and being restarted.
Replacing poll() with pselect() returns ERESTARTNOHAND.
(In both cases the timeout must be updated since the application
does see the timeout.)

I'm sure other unix kernels completely ignore signals set to SIG_IGN.
So this restart dance just isn't needed.

	David

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