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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:57:32 +0000
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc: Dmitry Dicky <diwil@dataart.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: recvfrom() and signals
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:45:05AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> See the sigaction manpage and how one enable/disables system call
> restarts.

He is setting the signal handler with signal(), which calls
sigaction() without the SA_RESTART flag set, so it seems that should
interrupt recvfrom().

It is possible that something is calling siginterrupt() somewhere
which changes what signal() does?

	David.


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