Matt Mackall wrote:
> _Neither_ case mentions signals and the "and will return as many bytes
> as requested" is clearly just a restatement of "does not have this
> limit". Whoever copied this comment to the manpage was a bit sloppy
> and dropped the first clause rather than the second:

It still means the documented API says there are no short reads.


> So anyone doing a read() can expect a short read regardless of the fd
> and is quite clear that reads can be interrupted by signals. "It is
> not an error". Ever.

Of course are signal interruptions wrong if the signal uses SA_RESTART.

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