sys_restart_syscall(9)

✨ sys_restart_syscall(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for sys_restart_syscall — she's short, she's sweet, and she's literally the "try that again" queen of the kernel 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

sys_restart_syscall — restart a system call 🔁✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

long sys_restart_syscall (void );

(yes, that's the whole thing. no cap. she ate and left no crumbs 🍓)

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• void — no arguments 🫶

Like, none. Zero. The void is the vibe. Nothing to pass in, nothing to worry about, just a clean little function signature with main character energy 👑

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./kernel/signal.c — that's where she lives, go say hi 💌

• task_set_jobctl_pending(9)
• task_clear_jobctl_trapping(9)
• task_clear_jobctl_pending(9)
• task_participate_group_stop(9)
• ptrace_trap_notify(9)
• force_sig_seccomp(9)
• do_notify_parent_cldstop(9)
• do_signal_stop(9)
• do_jobctl_trap(9)
• do_freezer_trap(9)
• signal_delivered(9)
• set_current_blocked(9)
• sys_rt_sigprocmask(9)
• sys_rt_sigpending(9)
• copy_siginfo_to_external32(9)
• do_sigtimedwait(9)
• sys_rt_sigtimedwait(9)
• sys_kill(9)
• sys_pidfd_send_signal(9)
• sys_tgkill(9)
• sys_tkill(9)
• sys_rt_sigqueueinfo(9)
• sys_sigpending(9)
• sys_sigprocmask(9)
• sys_rt_sigaction(9)
• sys_rt_sigsuspend(9)

that's the whole signal-family friend group right there, iykyk 😭🫶 they all hang out in the same neighborhood, go read them too fr fr 🌈

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bestie note: this page is tiny but that's okay — sometimes the icon is just iconic and doesn't need a whole essay 💀✨

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that's the whole page, bestie!! sourced from ./kernel, October 2026 edition, and yes I'm obsessed 😌💜 go forth and restart some system calls, mwah 🎀💖🌟