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SubjectRe: User vs. Kernel (was: To be smug, or not to be smug, that is
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> > 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. Its a
> > nice feature, it allows me to leave out the error handling code that has to
> > take care of this problem on SunOS and others by restarting the same system
> > call; adjusted for any changes.
>
> Very nice, but sadly nonportable. Sounds like we need an all-Unix
> conference to hash out an acceptable common solution, unless the majority
> really, really loves writing #ifdef s.


Not really, POSIX sorted this out years ago. man sigaction


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