Please don't drop the Cc list! "Brian J. Murrell" <br...@interlinx.bc.ca> writes:
>> What's odd is that while I cannot reproduce the original problem, there >> seems to be another issue/bug with utime(): > > I wonder if this is related to http://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-305. > That was reported as fixed in Lustre 2.0.0 and 2.1.0 but I thought I > saw it on 2.1.1 and added a comment to the above ticket about that. Aha, that's a very interesting bug report. My observations support yours: I managed to get EINTR during utime(). >> In the absence of it, wouldn't we in theory have to write a simple >> loop-on-EINTR wrapper for *all* syscalls? > > IIUC, that's what SA_RESTART is all about. Yes, but there's precious little clear language on when SA_RESTART is supposed to act. In all cases? The wording on http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/glibc/libc_485.html http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/glibc/libc_498.html leads me to believe that SA_RESTART is actually used on the glibc side of things, so that any glibc syscall wrapper not specifically equipped with the restarting behavior would return EINTR unmodified. This might explain why utime() doesn't restart like it should (assuming we work on the theory that POSIX doesn't allow an EINTR from utime() to begin with). -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
