Re: [PATCH] UML - signal bug fix

From: Bodo Stroesser (bstroesser_at_fujitsu-siemens.com)
Date: 11/11/04

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    Date:	Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:09:50 +0100
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

    Jeff Dike wrote:
    > This patch fixes a bug introduced in the last batch of signal fixes. The
    > system call return value should only be reset if called diectly from a system
    > call, i.e. sigsuspend. The fixes added earlier caused any interrupted non-zero
    > system call return to be reset, confusing fork and vfork, among others.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
    >
    Yes. The patchset was wrong.
    But IMHO the solution shouldn't be resetting to the old state, that did syscall
    restarting wrong!
    The problem, you fix here, doesn't occur, when using my complete patchset. And my
    patches fix UML's wrong syscall restart handling. And other issues they fix, too.

    Bodo
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