From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix APIs: elegant or not?
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 06:35:47 -0700 [thread overview]
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On Sun, Nov 4, 2018, 4:28 AM Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net wrote:
> If anyone ever asks me about the elegance of UNIX, there’s one word, or
> really term, that springs to mind: EINTR.
>
> The fact that man pages on modern systems still describe calls as
> returning -1 with errno set to EINTR baffles me.
>
Why? It's still a thing...
Warner
>
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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
2018-11-04 13:35 ` Warner Losh [this message]
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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