changeset 46298:c6d9317e4393

(sys_signal): Test BROKEN_SA_RESTART.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:29:56 +0000
parents e3a0f935c9c5
children 72e949fc6d1e
files src/sysdep.c
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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;