netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: unix: non blocking recvmsg() should not return -EINTR

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Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:05:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rweikusat@...ileactivedefense.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, David.Laight@...LAB.COM,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: unix: non blocking recvmsg() should not return
 -EINTR

From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@...ileactivedefense.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:46:05 +0000

> As I already wrote, this is a theoretical problem with no really
> satisfactory solution minus noting that both 'nonblocking sockets' and
> 'multithreaded kernels' are somewhat alien concepts when considering the
> system where EINTR originated (AFAIK).

I completely disagree.

EINTR always means that you asked for a blocking operation, and a
signal arrived meanwhile.

Once you invert the "blocking" part of that set of conditrions, EINTR
becomes an impossible event.

I don't have time to check BSD, but I'm very confident that these are
the rules codified in their socket syscall layer too.

I'm going to apply Eric's patch.
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