diff --git a/pym/portage/__init__.py b/pym/portage/__init__.py
index 66bfeb0..bf45c24 100644
--- a/pym/portage/__init__.py
+++ b/pym/portage/__init__.py
@@ -256,7 +256,13 @@ class _unicode_func_wrapper(object):
 		encoding = self._encoding
 		wrapped_args, wrapped_kwargs = self._process_args(args, kwargs)
 
-		rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs)
+		while True:
+			try:
+				rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs)
+				break
+			except OSError as e:
+				if e.errno != errno.EINTR:
+					raise
 
 		# Don't use isinstance() since we don't want to convert subclasses
 		# of tuple such as posix.stat_result in Python >=3.2.