On Oct 7, 2016, at 5:41 AM, FX <fxcoud...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Many POSIX systems have the bad habit of not restarting interrupted >> syscalls. On these systems it's up to the user to check for an error >> with errno == EINTR and restart manually. This patch does this for >> libgfortran, so that GFortran users don't have to do it. > > I have not much experience with EINTR, but is it garanteed that those EINTR > loops will never cycle forever?
They will not. You get at most 1 for 1 signal, sometimes less. If you have a finite number of signals, you will have a finite number of loops.