python reliability with EINTR handling in general modules

[oleg korenevich]

I have linux board on samsung SoC s3c6410 (ARM11). I build rootfs with
buildroot: Python 2.7.1, uClibc-0.9.31. Linux kernel: Linux buildroot
2.6.28.6 #177 Mon Oct 3 12:50:57 EEST 2011 armv6l GNU/Linux

My app, written on python, in some mysterios conditons raise this
exceptions:

1) exception:

 File "./dfbUtils.py", line 3209, in setItemData
ValueError: (4, 'Interrupted system call')
code:

currentPage=int(math.floor(float(rowId)/
self.pageSize))==self.selectedPage
2) exception:

File "./terminalGlobals.py", line 943, in getFirmawareName
OSError: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call: 'firmware'
code:

for fileName in os.listdir('firmware'):
Some info about app: it have 3-7 threads, listen serial ports via
'serial' module, use gui implemented via c extension that wrap
directfb, i can't reproduce this exceptions, they are not predictable.

I googled for EINTR exceptions in python, but only found that EINTR
can occur only on slow system calls and python's modules socket,
subprocess and another one is already process EINTR. So what happens
in my app? Why simple call of math function can interrupt program at
any time, it's not reliable at all. I have only suggestions: ulibc
bug, kernel/hw handling bug. But this suggestions don't show me
solution.

Now i created wrap functions (that restart opertion in case of EINTR)
around some functions from os module, but wrapping math module will
increase execution time in 2 times. There another question: if math
can be interrutped than other module also can and how to get
reliability?