From 7ea9131e8ea2491e6132c7c28e89af844bfb9489 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pieter Droogendijk <pieter@binky.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 22:19:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] inotify: Retry read on EINTR

closes #62
---
 CHANGELOG.md | 4 ++++
 inotify.go   | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 55a4e7b..fe4c3ba 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## v1.1.1 / 2015-02-05
+
+* inotify: Retry read on EINTR [#61](https://github.com/go-fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/61) (thanks @PieterD)
+
 ## v1.1.0 / 2014-12-12
 
 * kqueue: rework internals [#43](https://github.com/go-fsnotify/fsnotify/pull/43)
diff --git a/inotify.go b/inotify.go
index f5c0aae..1a693f3 100644
--- a/inotify.go
+++ b/inotify.go
@@ -142,6 +142,12 @@ func (w *Watcher) readEvents() {
 		}
 
 		n, errno = syscall.Read(w.fd, buf[:])
+		// If a signal interrupted execution, see if we've been asked to close, and try again.
+		// http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html :
+		// "Before Linux 3.8, reads from an inotify(7) file descriptor were not restartable"
+		if errno == syscall.EINTR {
+			continue
+		}
 
 		// If EOF is received
 		if n == 0 {