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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: george@moberg.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can EINTR be handled the way BSD handles it? -- a plea from a user-land  programmer...
Date: 03 Nov 2000 11:41:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y9z0g7wp.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A03120A.DFC62AD5@moberg.com>
In-Reply-To: george@moberg.com's message of "Fri, 03 Nov 2000 14:29:14 -0500"

george@moberg.com writes:

> Can we _PLEASE_PLEASE_PLEASE_ not do this anymore and have the kernel do
> what BSD does:  re-start the interrupted call?

This is crap.  Returning EINTR is necessary for many applications.

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-03 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-03 19:29 george
2000-11-03 19:41 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2000-11-03 19:49   ` george
2000-11-03 21:34     ` dean gaudet
2000-11-03 19:51   ` kuznet
2000-11-03 21:24     ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-03 20:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-04  3:06 David Feuer
     [not found] <20001105042410.C3961@fuji.laendle>
2000-11-06 14:13 ` George Talbot
2000-11-06 16:55   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2000-11-06 18:50     ` Ulrich Drepper
2000-11-06 19:11       ` Ulrich Drepper
2000-11-06 19:37         ` kuznet
2000-11-07 15:53       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2000-11-07  4:46   ` dean gaudet

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