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doc/go1.14: mention increased number of EINTR errors

Updates #36281

Change-Id: I3c4487caaf47566212dc62322b2e884e695ea7f1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/212657
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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Ian Lance Taylor 2019-12-26 15:57:13 -08:00
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<code>plan9/*</code>.
</p>
<p>
A consequence of the implementation of preemption is that on Unix
systems, including Linux and macOS systems, programs built with Go
1.14 will receive more signals than programs built with earlier
releases.
This means that programs that use packages
like <a href="/pkg/syscall/"><code>syscall</code></a>
or <a href="https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/sys/unix"><code>golang.org/x/sys/unix</code></a>
will see more slow system calls fail with <code>EINTR</code> errors.
Those programs will have to handle those errors in some way, most
likely looping to try the system call again. For more
information about this
see <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html"><code>man
7 signal</code></a> for Linux systems or similar documentation for
other systems.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 201765, CL 195701 and many others -->
The page allocator is more efficient and incurs significantly less
lock contention at high values of <code>GOMAXPROCS</code>.