From: Donald ODona <mutiny.mutiny@india.com>
To: "arnold@skeeve.com Chris Hanson" <cmhanson@eschatologist.net>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix APIs: elegant or not?
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 14:11:04 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2008946716.58169.1541427064505.JavaMail.tomcat@india-live-be01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C84DDCBC-7699-4078-8E92-521589FADB2C@eschatologist.net>
At 4 Nov 2018 22:07:46 +0000 (+00:00) from Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net>:
> And do this for every classic system call, since virtually no client code should ever have to care about EINTR. It was early an implementation expediency that became API and that everyone now has to just deal with because you can’t expect the system call interface you use to do this for you.
>
> This is the sort of wart that should’ve been fixed by System V and/or BSD 4 at latest.
>
you are right!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-05 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-31 4:38 Warren Toomey
2018-10-31 15:47 ` Paul Winalski
2018-10-31 17:22 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-31 19:33 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-10-31 20:57 ` G. Branden Robinson
2018-10-31 21:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-01 7:42 ` Pierre DAVID
2018-11-01 10:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-01 12:57 ` Clem Cole
2018-11-01 14:19 ` ron minnich
2018-11-01 14:41 ` Clem Cole
2018-11-01 16:43 ` Warner Losh
2018-11-01 16:48 ` ron minnich
2018-11-01 16:56 ` Warner Losh
2018-11-02 5:24 ` Bakul Shah
2018-11-04 10:53 ` Chris Hanson
2018-11-04 15:34 ` ron minnich
2018-11-04 17:06 ` Warner Losh
2018-11-04 20:00 ` ron minnich
2018-11-04 18:52 ` Bakul Shah
2018-11-04 10:49 ` Chris Hanson
2018-11-04 12:28 ` arnold
2018-11-04 21:34 ` Chris Hanson
2018-11-05 14:11 ` Donald ODona [this message]
2018-11-04 13:35 ` Warner Losh
2018-11-04 19:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-01 15:39 Noel Chiappa
2018-11-04 22:29 Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-04 22:37 Noel Chiappa
2018-11-05 4:04 ` Dave Horsfall
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