Bug: Failed to read initial configuration, open() syscall might be interrupted.

[Andriy Prystupa]

This was reproduced on Ubuntu 14.04 in VirtualBox. But I guess that issue exists on other distros.

It is very timing dependent issue. Using Gdb or strace easily hide it.

Our kernel has custom LSM. so open() syscall timing might be little bit changed some time. It has same effect as on slow devices I guess.

On Monday, October 10, 2016, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

On 10/5/16 9:04 AM, Andriy Prystupa wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Error:
>
> */bash: /etc/bash.bashrc: Interrupted system call /*
>
> Reproduced on bash-4.4 via *gnome-terminal* or *terminator* terminal.

This is interesting.  On what version of Unix/Linux is open(2) on a regular
file from the local file system interrupted?  Traditional behavior is that
open can be interrupted when used on a `slow' device, but not otherwise.

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