signal_pending() and schedule()

[Melkor Ainur]

Hello all,

I have been writing a hw driver for SAN. In my 
implementation of tcp_sendmsg, I attempt to force
the application to sleep until the data buffer has
been dma-ed:

    if (signal_pending(current)) {
      return -ERESTARTSYS;
    }
// no signal was pending

// timeo == MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT in this case
    timeo = schedule_timeout(timeo);
// signal is always pending
    if (signal_pending(current)) {
      return -ERESTARTSYS;
    }
This works fine for some applications like netcat,etc
but fails for netscape. In debugging this, I observe
that after calling schedule_timeout(), the sigpending
bit appears to be set immediately and thus 
schedule() doesn't actually put the process to sleep.
I will continue to look for where schedule_timeout()
or schedule() could affect sigpending. In the mean 
time, I am hoping for any hints/suggestions that could
help me solve this issue of why schedule_timeout 
appears to affect sigpending. (2.4.7-10smp on x86)

                                    Thanks,
                                    Melkor

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