Bruce Evans wrote: > > >From my experience/use with amanda I know that it _always_ kills the > > dumps that it starts when doing its estimates at the beginning (often > > several per file system, one for each dump level it's interested in). I > > don't think it deliberately kills the dumps when actually dumping the > > data. :-) > > So the problem seems to be mainly that dump expects all syscalls to be > restarted after it catches these signals, and open() isn't restarted.
POSIX sucks... siginterrupt(3) is your friend, in this case. Unfortunately, someone broke it and added a "sig" parameter, and you have to call it once per signal now, which means enumerating signals on an unknown host system (brilliant engineering, that). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
