[PATCH v4 1/1] ldconfig: add --install option

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Jun 9 08:12:50 GMT 2026


On Jun 08 2026, DJ Delorie wrote:

> It's the way I've always done that, because on some OSs (including
> Linux), read and write can return a partial count if the program
> receives a signal.

That happens only for potentially blocking I/O like pipes or sockets.
You would also have to handle EINTR (we have TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY for
that).

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