I think you are misunderstanding what I said. You are taking things out of context. I was saying here what I did was inspired by why the syscall was designed to begin with. The syscall below refers to epoll_wait and not epoll_pwait. -Deepa On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 7:19 AM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 05/23, Deepa Dinamani wrote: > > > > 1. block the signals you don't care about. > > 2. syscall() > > 3. unblock the signals blocked in 1. > > and even this part of your email is very confusing. because in this case > we can never miss a signal. I'd say > > 1. block the signals you don't care about > 2. unblock the signals which should interrupt the syscall below > 3. syscall() > 4. block the signals unblocked in 2. > > Oleg. >
