Re: ERESTARTSYS question.

2001-04-05 Thread Bjorn Wesen
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Jani Monoses wrote: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Bjorn Wesen wrote: > > ERESTARTSYS is a part of the api between the driver and the > > signal-handling code in the kernel. It does not reach user-space (provided > > of course that it's used appropriately in the drivers :) > > As an e

Re: ERESTARTSYS question.

2001-04-05 Thread Jani Monoses
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Bjorn Wesen wrote: > > ERESTARTSYS is a part of the api between the driver and the > signal-handling code in the kernel. It does not reach user-space (provided > of course that it's used appropriately in the drivers :) As an example sound/via82cxxx_audio.c returns ERESTAR

Re: ERESTARTSYS question.

2001-04-05 Thread Bjorn Wesen
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Jani Monoses wrote: > although the comments in errno.h say that ERESTARTSYS should not be seen > by userland,many drivers seam to return it from their > file_operations.Should glibc convert this errno so that the user program > sees something meaningful?Because it does not.Is E

ERESTARTSYS question.

2001-04-05 Thread Jani Monoses
Hi, although the comments in errno.h say that ERESTARTSYS should not be seen by userland,many drivers seam to return it from their file_operations.Should glibc convert this errno so that the user program sees something meaningful?Because it does not.Is EINTR not a better errno to return from the