epoll_wait man page error
Bug #480566 reported by
Angelo Borsotti
This bug affects 1 person
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manpages (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
man epoll_wait states:
EINTR The call was interrupted by a signal handler before any of the
However, epoll_wait does not return EINTR when the timeout expires, it
simply returns 0 as number of file descriptors, and errno = 0.
This is the correct behaviour (otherwise there would be no way to tell
a signal interruption from a timeout one).
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