Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The downside is that the patch assumes the POSIX behavior where read and > write fail with errno==EINTR when interrupted, and so it won't work on > ancient hosts where there's no way to get the POSIX behavior even with > sigaction. These days, though, I don't think we need to worry about > 4.3BSD hosts so I think this is OK.
According to the various manpages the siginterrupt function already existed in 4.3BSD. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra�e 5, 90409 N�rnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
