Interrupted Waits on Condition Variables

When an unmasked caught signal is delivered to a thread waiting on a condition variable, when the signal handler returns, the thread returns from the condition wait function with a spurious wakeup: pthread_cond_wait() and pthread_cond_timedwait() return 0 even though no call to pthread_cond_signal() or pthread_cond_broadcast() was made by another thread. Whether SA_RESTART has been specified as a flag to sigaction() has no effect here. The pthread_cond_wait() and pthread_cond_timedwait() functions are not automatically restarted. In all cases, the associated mutex lock is reacquired before returning from the condition wait.

Re-acquisition of the associated mutex lock does not imply that the mutex is locked while the thread is executing the signal handler. The state of the mutex in the signal handler is undefined.