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diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE index e89b3c67e5..ed61ea9d28 100644 --- a/CODING_STYLE +++ b/CODING_STYLE @@ -429,3 +429,8 @@ and Linux/GNU-specific APIs, we generally prefer the POSIX APIs. If there aren't, we are happy to use GNU or Linux APIs, and expect non-GNU implementations of libc to catch up with glibc. + +- Whenever installing a signal handler, make sure to set SA_RESTART for it, so + that interrupted system calls are automatically restarted, and we minimize + hassles with handling EINTR (in particular as EINTR handling is pretty broken + on Linux). |