[Lustre-discuss] clients gets EINTR from time to time

[Brian J. Murrell]

On 11-02-24 08:16 AM, Francois Chassaing wrote:
> Well, as I understand your point and I do also understand that this signal is not a malfunction, 

No, but not handling it properly is.  Interpreting an EINTR as "the disk
must be full" (i.e. a fatal error) is wrong.

> my question was regarding to the intrinsic "why" (and when) does this signal is sent to the client.

That's completely up to your application.  It's the way your application
has been written that is determining the hows and whys of signals.

b.

-- 
Brian J. Murrell
Senior Software Engineer
Whamcloud, Inc.

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