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Subject: Compile-time flag to enable optional EINTR's?
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I know musl has reasons not to enable EINTR where it's optional (such
as c0ed5a20), but there are a lot of use cases where the lack of it
causes problems. As a compromise, would a patch to add a ./configure
flag (say --enable-optional-eintr) to change this behavior be
accepted?

Joseph C. Sible