RE: Interrupted system call problem

[Keith Seitz <keiths at cygnus dot com>]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, deCarmo, Linden wrote:

> Ok, the latest snapshot hangs rather than reports "Interrupted system call"
> whenever the the code below is executed.  To be specific, the source
> disappears and it reports:
> 
> Select function name to disassemble
> 
> ====
> 
> The stack is listed as ???? 

You're probably in a dynamic loader stub or similar, sitting at the first 
instruction. Gdb is obviously a little confused about where it is... 
(This should not happen.)

> struct timeval tv;
>  	336	
> -	337		tv.tv_sec = seconds;
>  	338		tv.tv_usec = microseconds;
> -	340		return(select(0,NULL,NULL,NULL,&tv));

Let me guess, it does this on line 340? Then I would guess that shared 
libraries are a little broken on your system. Hmmm.... Solaris 2.8...  

> Any idea what I can try next?  Its weird that ddd doesn't have the same
> issue using gdb.

Does command line gdb exhibit the same behavior (run the insight gdb 
with the "-nw" flag)?

If it also has this problem, then there has been a regression in gdb 
handling shared libraries on Solaris 2.8. Ask on the gdb list 
(gdb@sources.redhat.com). There will be a lot more people over there who 
would know about this.

Good luck.
Keith