From man poll(2), poll does not set errno=EAGAIN, however it does set

errno=EINTR. Have libvirt retry on the appropriate errno.

Under heavy load, a program of mine kept getting libvirt errors 'poll on socket

failed: Interrupted system call'. The signals were SIGCHLD from processes forked

by threads unrelated to those using libvirt.

diff --git a/src/rpc/virnetclient.c b/src/rpc/virnetclient.c

index 2530ffa..f2a6922 100644

--- a/src/rpc/virnetclient.c

+++ b/src/rpc/virnetclient.c

@@ -1374,7 +1374,7 @@ static int virNetClientIOEventLoop(virNetClientPtr client,

 

     repoll:

         ret = poll(fds, ARRAY_CARDINALITY(fds), timeout);

-        if (ret < 0 && errno == EAGAIN)

+        if (ret < 0 && errno == EINTR)

             goto repoll;

 

         ignore_value(pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &oldmask, NULL));