diff -r 388016438a50 Lib/socketserver.py
--- a/Lib/socketserver.py	Fri Apr 06 13:20:49 2012 -0400
+++ b/Lib/socketserver.py	Fri Apr 06 23:40:08 2012 +0200
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@
 import select
 import sys
 import os
+import errno
 try:
     import threading
 except ImportError:
@@ -147,6 +148,15 @@
                     "ThreadingUnixStreamServer",
                     "ThreadingUnixDatagramServer"])
 
+def _eintr_retry(func, *args):
+    """restart a system call interrupted by EINTR"""
+    while True:
+        try:
+            return func(*args)
+        except OSError as e:
+            if e.errno != errno.EINTR:
+                raise
+
 class BaseServer:
 
     """Base class for server classes.
@@ -223,7 +233,8 @@
                 # connecting to the socket to wake this up instead of
                 # polling. Polling reduces our responsiveness to a
                 # shutdown request and wastes cpu at all other times.
-                r, w, e = select.select([self], [], [], poll_interval)
+                r, w, e = _eintr_retry(select.select, [self], [], [],
+                                       poll_interval)
                 if self in r:
                     self._handle_request_noblock()
 
@@ -273,7 +284,7 @@
             timeout = self.timeout
         elif self.timeout is not None:
             timeout = min(timeout, self.timeout)
-        fd_sets = select.select([self], [], [], timeout)
+        fd_sets = _eintr_retry(select.select, [self], [], [], timeout)
         if not fd_sets[0]:
             self.handle_timeout()
             return
diff -r 388016438a50 Lib/test/test_socketserver.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_socketserver.py	Fri Apr 06 13:20:49 2012 -0400
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socketserver.py	Fri Apr 06 23:40:08 2012 +0200
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 import select
 import signal
 import socket
+import select
+import errno
 import tempfile
 import unittest
 import socketserver
@@ -226,6 +228,38 @@
                                 socketserver.DatagramRequestHandler,
                                 self.dgram_examine)
 
+    @contextlib.contextmanager
+    def mocked_select_module(self):
+        """Mocks the select.select() call to raise EINTR for first call"""
+        old_select = select.select
+
+        class MockSelect:
+            def __init__(self):
+                self.called = 0
+
+            def __call__(self, *args):
+                self.called += 1
+                if self.called == 1:
+                    # raise the exception on first call
+                    raise OSError(errno.EINTR, os.strerror(errno.EINTR))
+                else:
+                    # Return real select value for consecutive calls
+                    return old_select(*args)
+
+        select.select = MockSelect()
+        try:
+            yield select.select
+        finally:
+            select.select = old_select
+
+    def test_InterruptServerSelectCall(self):
+        with self.mocked_select_module() as mock_select:
+            pid = self.run_server(socketserver.TCPServer,
+                                  socketserver.StreamRequestHandler,
+                                  self.stream_examine)
+            # Make sure select was called again:
+            self.assertGreater(mock_select.called, 1)
+
     # Alas, on Linux (at least) recvfrom() doesn't return a meaningful
     # client address so this cannot work:
 
diff -r 388016438a50 Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS	Fri Apr 06 13:20:49 2012 -0400
+++ b/Misc/NEWS	Fri Apr 06 23:40:08 2012 +0200
@@ -5164,6 +5164,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #7978: SocketServer doesn't handle syscall interruption; a wrapper was
+  added around SocketServer's use of select() to resolve that.
+
 - In pdb, when Ctrl-C is entered while defining commands for a breakpoint, the
   old commands are restored.