followup: stuck lmtpd processes

[Rob Siemborski]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Etienne Goyer wrote:

> However, the man page is wrong about EINTR at least as far as RedHat 7.x
> is concerned.  In a murder environnement, when following a referral :

No it isn't wrong.  The problem is signals that are configured via
signal() instead of sigaction().  On Linux, signal() implicetly sets the
SA_RESTART flag, which causes the signal to have this behavior, not the
syscall.

If SA_RESTART is not set, then the system call is interrupted (and returns
EINTR) as it should be.

-Rob

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