# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 1026408596 0
# Node ID c6d9317e43934310d99f9a51447264fad24ff98d
# Parent  e3a0f935c9c580e156d2d7d57ad31349ca479bc3
(sys_signal): Test BROKEN_SA_RESTART.

diff -r e3a0f935c9c5 -r c6d9317e4393 src/sysdep.c
--- a/src/sysdep.c	Thu Jul 11 17:14:03 2002 +0000
+++ b/src/sysdep.c	Thu Jul 11 17:29:56 2002 +0000
@@ -2816,10 +2816,12 @@
   struct sigaction new_action, old_action;
   sigemptyset (&new_action.sa_mask);
   new_action.sa_handler = action;
-#ifdef SA_RESTART
+#if defined (SA_RESTART) && ! defined (BROKEN_SA_RESTART)
   /* Emacs mostly works better with restartable system services. If this
-   * flag exists, we probably want to turn it on here.
-   */
+     flag exists, we probably want to turn it on here.
+     However, on some systems this resets the timeout of `select'
+     which means that `select' never finishes if it keeps getting signals.
+     BROKEN_SA_RESTART is defined on those systems.  */
   new_action.sa_flags = SA_RESTART;
 #else
   new_action.sa_flags = 0;