[Bug 480566] Re: epoll_wait man page error

[Angelo Borsotti]

Hi Michael.

the correct text should be:

EINTR  The  call  was interrupted by a signal handler before any of the
             requested events occurred; see signal(7).

The issue is that EINTR is not returned when the timeout expires, but only
when one of the events occur.

-Angelo

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Title:
  epoll_wait man page error

Status in “manpages” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  man epoll_wait states:

  EINTR  The  call  was interrupted by a signal handler before any of the
                requested events occurred or the timeout expired; see signal(7).

  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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