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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> 
> Is it necessary that the futex syscall ignores SA_RESTART?

Very possibly. That was definitely the case for "select()" long ago.

		Linus