Hi,

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

> Hmm, I'm not sure I would go that far.  Per the POSIX specification,
> we support the optional BSD-style restartable system calls for signals
> which will avoid short reads; but this is only true if SA_RESTART is
> passed to sigaction().  Without SA_RESTART, we will indeed return
> short reads, as required by POSIX.
> 
> I don't think Linus has said that short reads are always evil; I
> certainly can't remember him ever making that statement.  Do you have
> a pointer to a LKML message where he's said that?

That's the last discussion about signals and I/O I can remember:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.0/0188.html

bye, Roman
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