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Subject: Re: siginterrupt (was Re: Error in sleep !)
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> So, it means that we still compatible with POSIX here. 
> I'll change
> 	the default behaviour on FreeBSD
> to
> 	the default behaviour for signal(3) on FreeBSD
> to make siginterrupt(3) man page more clear.

Still wrong.  FreeBSD does not restart system calls by default.

I think it was a bad decision, but it's one required for a strict
POSIX environment.

I think it's wrong because it makes it hard to make section 3 calls
behave as system calls in the face of call restart.

Oh well.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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