svn commit: r247080 - stable/9/lib/libc/sys

[Konstantin Belousov]

Author: kib
Date: Thu Feb 21 05:57:51 2013
New Revision: 247080
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/247080

Log:
  MFC r246476:
  Document the ERESTART translation to EINTR for devfs nodes.

Modified:
  stable/9/lib/libc/sys/open.2
Directory Properties:
  stable/9/lib/libc/   (props changed)
  stable/9/lib/libc/sys/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/9/lib/libc/sys/open.2
==============================================================================
--- stable/9/lib/libc/sys/open.2	Thu Feb 21 05:55:52 2013	(r247079)
+++ stable/9/lib/libc/sys/open.2	Thu Feb 21 05:57:51 2013	(r247080)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)open.2	8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd March 25, 2011
+.Dd February 7, 2013
 .Dt OPEN 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -244,6 +244,17 @@ It returns \-1 on failure.
 The file pointer used to mark the current position within the
 file is set to the beginning of the file.
 .Pp
+If a sleeping open of a device node from
+.Xr devfs 5
+is interrupted by a signal, the call always fails with
+.Er EINTR ,
+even if the
+.Dv SA_RESTART
+flag is set for the signal.
+A sleeping open of a fifo (see
+.Xr mkfifo 2 )
+is restarted as normal.
+.Pp
 When a new file is created it is given the group of the directory
 which contains it.
 .Pp