Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:28:24 +0000 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: User vs. Kernel (was: To be smug, or not to be smug, that is the |
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Hi,
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 01:15:42AM -0500, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
> >If your process gets a signal, read() will return -1 and set > >errno to EINTR. You must try the system call again, in a loop, > > This does not happen on Linux, at least not when using Libc 5, without > undefining GNU or something like that. The GNU C library by default doesn't > interrupt the read or write call when the process receives a signal.
What does it have to do with the C library? read() is a system call.
S.
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