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From: cs@kanawha.eng.sun.com (Carl Smith)
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Subject: Re: Portmap fix is Bug Id 1025560 (was Re: missing ethers entry)
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Date: 2 Dec 89 12:12:15 GMT
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The portmapper problem was caused by a SIGCHLD interrupting svc_run and
calling a signal handler which changed the value of errno (svc_run checks
for and ignores errno == EINTR, but believes other errors are genuine and
returns).  The patch saves and restores errno in the SIGCHLD handler.

			Carl