signals and read blocking - EINTR

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:40:00AM -0700, Jim Easton wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:49:30PM -0700, Jim Easton wrote:
>>>I'm wondering what am I missing?  Is there a flag in sigaction or
>>>something else that I could be setting?
>>
>>Yes.  SA_RESTART is the flag.
>
>and then Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>No: he wants to be _interrupted_.  SA_RESTART is used for _not_ being
>>interrupted, i.e.  the system restarts the system call itself.
>
>Thank you both for your help.  It's quite true that I do want to be
>interrupted and SA_RESTART is to prevent it.

Which was my point, actually.

I do kinda know this stuff.

cgf

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