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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2011-09-10 04:06:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2011-09-16 07:00:48 +0200 |
| commit | 23b903297ee7fba545a39a0df76fc149f91d1fd7 (patch) | |
| tree | b706fb96b5204b1d607ea2d7a67e673a79548b82 /man3/siginterrupt.3 | |
| parent | c3074d706105b8db022d342c6b0e3ab8044f640d (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-23b903297ee7fba545a39a0df76fc149f91d1fd7.tar.gz | |
siginterrupt.3: Remove misleading sentence about signal(2) and system call interruption
Reported-by: Luis Javier Merino <ninjalj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/siginterrupt.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/siginterrupt.3 | 5 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man3/siginterrupt.3 b/man3/siginterrupt.3 index 936425d604..e5589d9e77 100644 --- a/man3/siginterrupt.3 +++ b/man3/siginterrupt.3 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" 386BSD man pages .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:40:51 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" Modified Sun Apr 14 16:20:34 1996 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) -.TH SIGINTERRUPT 3 2010-09-26 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH SIGINTERRUPT 3 2011-09-09 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME siginterrupt \- allow signals to interrupt system calls .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -59,9 +59,6 @@ If the \fIflag\fP argument is false (0), then system calls will be restarted if interrupted by the specified signal \fIsig\fP. This is the default behavior in Linux. -However, when a new signal handler is specified with the -.BR signal (2) -function, the system call is interrupted by default. .PP If the \fIflag\fP argument is true (1) and no data has been transferred, then a system call interrupted by the signal \fIsig\fP will return \-1 |