> > It is like saying that it would be OK for a program, when interrupted > > through Ctrl-Z and restarted through 'fg', to stop processing and exit > > with a message "read: Interrupted system call". ... > > POSIX allowed the kernel to return from a > > read() system call with errno = EINTR. But users don't want this. So it > > was seen as a bug in the program, and fixed. > > If by "users" you mean "programs that make system calls"
By "users don't want this" I meant: Users don't want programs to terminate with an error message "read: Interrupted system call", just because they used the job control features of the shell. Bruno
