Re: [hackers] [PATCH] dd: Use sigaction(2) to obviate select(2)

[Dimitris Papastamos]

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 04:31:24AM -0700, Eric Pruitt wrote:
> By setting the SIGINT handler with sigaction(2), automatic retries of
> the splice(2) syscall can be disabled by not setting SA_RESTART. This
> makes it possible to use Ctrl+C even if the "if" operand refers to the
> controlling terminal. The SIGINT message has also been moved outside the
> signal handler since fprintf(3) is not an async-signal-safe function.

Thanks, applied.