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Subject: Re: [MiNT] sigaction() and SA_RESTART / SA_INTERRUPT
From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>
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On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 08:58 +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 22:00 +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> >> 	Is there any way to SA_RESTART or SA_INTERRUPT in sa_flags
> >>  	for sigaction() under mint? Ther are the two ways to
> >>  	determine whether system calls should be restarted after
> >>  	a signal?
> >
> > Nope, currently unsupported.
> 
>  	Ah bummer :(
> 
>  	Is there any docs on the signal implementation in MiNT? I notice
>  	signal.h mentions that signal() defaults to BSD semantics, which
>  	should include restartable system calls?

All the docs that I know are in the FreeMiNT source :-)

Alan.