From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:23:16 GMT
Subject: Re: GIT get corrupted on lustre
Message-ID: <20130123172316.GA3238@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <871udbc3af.fsf@pctrast.inf.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast wrote:

> Taken together this should mean that the bug is in fact simply that the
> calls do not *restart*.  They are (like you say) allowed to return EINTR
> despite not being specified to, *but* SA_RESTART should restart it.
>
> Now, does that make it a lustre bug or a glibc bug? :-)

The kernel takes care of SA_RESTART, if I remember correctly.  (See
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c::handle_signal() case -ERESTARTSYS.)