Orion Poplawski <orion@xxxxxxxx>: > I backported these patches to the RHEL7 kernel and have started > running that. One thing I've noticed are messages like the following > at login time: > > bash: /etc/bash_completion.d/itweb-settings.bash: Interrupted system call > > [...] > > But I'm wondering if these changes are leading to more EINTR returns > from open() than expected. Of if this is the new "normal", or if this > points to bugs in the antivirus software holding the fanotify > callbacks. > > Thoughts? A great observation! I believe 99.9% of Linux software is unprepared for an EINTR from regular file I/O. That might even be considered a violation of the API. (You problem report is reminiscent of what I'm experiencing with emacs' "M-x compile" command. The compilation fails if I should change the window geometry simultaneously because a SIGWINCH hits the compilation job. Nothing to do with fanotify but somewhat analogous.) Marko
