From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix APIs: elegant or not?
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 06:47:24 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1811050645000.78183@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7B5918F3-A65F-45FC-805A-07FE3FCE9253@eschatologist.net>
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, Chris Hanson wrote:
> The fact that man pages on modern systems still describe calls as
> returning -1 with errno set to EINTR baffles me.
Err, how else would you do it? You do understand the purpose of EINTR,
don't you?
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-04 20:32 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
2018-11-04 13:35 ` Warner Losh
2018-11-04 19:47 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
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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