Why do system calls need to be restarted after they receive a signal?
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When a process receives a signal and the signal is handled the process doesn’t restart, from my understanding the only that need to be restablished is the signal handler.
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When a process receives a signal and the signal is handled the process doesn’t restart, from my understanding the only that need to be restablished is the signal handler.
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I'm not sure I understand the question correctly. The way I understand it, this would be a duplicate of:EINTR: is there a rationale behind it?
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When a process receives a signal and the signal is handled the process doesn’t restart, from my understanding the only that need to be restablished is the signal handler.
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When a process receives a signal and the signal is handled the process doesn’t restart, from my understanding the only that need to be restablished is the signal handler.
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linux signals
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I'm not sure I understand the question correctly. The way I understand it, this would be a duplicate of:EINTR: is there a rationale behind it?
– A.B
1 hour ago
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I'm not sure I understand the question correctly. The way I understand it, this would be a duplicate of:EINTR: is there a rationale behind it?
– A.B
1 hour ago
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I'm not sure I understand the question correctly. The way I understand it, this would be a duplicate of:
EINTR: is there a rationale behind it?– A.B
1 hour ago
I'm not sure I understand the question correctly. The way I understand it, this would be a duplicate of:
EINTR: is there a rationale behind it?– A.B
1 hour ago
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I'm not sure I understand the question correctly. The way I understand it, this would be a duplicate of:
EINTR: is there a rationale behind it?– A.B
1 hour ago