I have just received the following information from a colleague. Looks
like HP have followed the route that other OS have gone for their newest
release.
> > The problem seems to be precisely that HP-UX does lack restartable
> > system calls.
>
> At least according to the HPUX 10 documentation, this doesn't appear to
> be the case. In the sigaction(2) man page, it says
>
> SA_RESTART This flag affects the behaviour of
> interruptible functions; that is, those
> specified to fail with errno set to EINTR.
> If set, and a function specified as
> interruptible is interrupted by this
> signal, the function will restart and will
> not fail with EINTR unless otherwise
> specified. If the flag is not set,
> interruptible functions interrupted by
> this signal will fail with errno set to
> EINTR.
>
> Note that this behaviour is specifiable on a per signal basis.
This is exactly the same as the other OS that have SA_RESTART.
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