On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 13:37 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 09/27/11 13:35, Kevin Fox wrote: > > As far as I can figure, partial read is an integral part of the read > > api. You can't disable enough stuff so that it doesn't ever happen. > > The SA_RESTART fix isn't intended to work around the > partial-read problem; it's intended to work around the > "we've got to check for EINTR everywhere" problem.
Then, like I said in the email you are responding to here, you don't need that patch at all since the code already handles that case, without the patch. See gnu/safe-read.c:72 Thanks, Kevin
