From 55fafcf0804ca28f3dfd8014428536c781192254 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 17:29:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (sys_signal): Test BROKEN_SA_RESTART. --- src/sysdep.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/sysdep.c b/src/sysdep.c index 383be4b9df6..f2ac20ae4a5 100644 --- a/src/sysdep.c +++ b/src/sysdep.c @@ -2816,10 +2816,12 @@ sys_signal (int signal_number, signal_handler_t action) struct sigaction new_action, old_action; sigemptyset (&new_action.sa_mask); new_action.sa_handler = action; -#ifdef SA_RESTART +#if defined (SA_RESTART) && ! defined (BROKEN_SA_RESTART) /* Emacs mostly works better with restartable system services. If this - * flag exists, we probably want to turn it on here. - */ + flag exists, we probably want to turn it on here. + However, on some systems this resets the timeout of `select' + which means that `select' never finishes if it keeps getting signals. + BROKEN_SA_RESTART is defined on those systems. */ new_action.sa_flags = SA_RESTART; #else new_action.sa_flags = 0; -- 2.39.2