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Message-Id: <20080910111016.b289b3eb.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:10:16 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: paccept() oddity
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:50:54 +0200 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com> wrote:
> Ulrich,
>
> [
> 2.6.27-rc has paccept():
>
> int paccept(int fd, struct sockaddr *sockaddr, socklen_t *addrlen,
> const sigset_t *sigmask, int setsize, int flags)
> ]
>
> While considering the sigset argument for paccept() (see my previous
> message), and testing that system call, I realized that there is a certain
> oddness in the implementation of paccept().
>
> Like accept(), paccept() automatically restarts if interrupted by a signal
> handler that was established with the SA_RESTART flag.
>
> On the other hand, pselect(), ppoll(), and epoll_pwait() are never restarted
> if interrupted by a handler, even if the handler was established with
> SA_RESTART. (This is the same as with select(), poll(), and epoll_wait().)
>
> It seems to me that it makes little sense to restart paccept(), especially in
> the case where it is interrupted by a handler for one of the signals that is
> in sigmask, since the whole point of calling paccept() is to block until a
> connection is received, or until one of the signals in sigmask is caught().
>
> How about changing paccept() so that it is never automatically restarted if
> interrupted by a signal handler, regardless of the SA_RESTART flag. (In
> other words, paccept() should be consistent with pselect(), ppoll(), and
> epoll_pwait(), rather than being consistent with accept().) What are your
> thoughts?
>
Oleg, Roland: would you have the time to ponder the above, please?
If we can't get this nailed down very soon I'd suggest that we disable
sys_paccept() for 2.6.27. We don't want to be releasing a new system
call into 2.6.27 if there are doubts surrounding its userspace-visible
behaviour.
Thanks.
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