From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:40:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use sigaction and SA_RESTART in read-tree.c; add option in Makefile.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604022139100.3781@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v7j67i93f.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jason Riedy <ejr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
> 
> > Also add a NO_SA_RESTART option in the Makefile in case someone
> > doesn't have SA_RESTART but does restart (maybe older HP/UX?).
> > We want the builder to chose this specifically in case the
> > system both lacks SA_RESTART and does not restart stdio calls;
> > a compat #define in git-compat-utils.h would silently allow
> > broken systems.
> 
> What am I missing...?

I don't think this part is worth it at least for now.

If there really are systems without SA_RESTART, they probably don't have 
sigaction() either, so #defining SA_RESTART to zero likely won't help.

But somebody can prove me wrong..

		Linus