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Date:      Wed, 13 Aug 1997 01:54:52 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        sos@sos.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   siginterrupt (was Re: Error in sleep !)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813014952.331A-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net>
In-Reply-To: <199708122135.OAA07747@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > > > Type "man siginterrupt".
> > >
> > > Hmm, then that man page is in error too in -current :(
> > 
> > This man page have nothing common with sleep signals interruption which
> > directly required by POSIX in any case.

Also all this stuff have no relations with sleep(3), one thing is unclear
to me: 

> By default, in traditional BSD, after a signal, the call was
> restarted.
> 
> This man page is incorrect about the default for FreeBSD; so
> is the signal man page.

As I check, man page says that it will be restarted for FreeBSD too.
What is incorrect here? I just check signal.c and see that SA_RESTART
is set unless expicitly disabled by siginterrupt(3)...

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@null.net>
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/




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