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.\" 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