Re: EAGAIN?

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Dec 19, 2005, 22:23 UTC
Message-ID: <43A732C9.2060509@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512191142410.4827@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>>I was looking at "git grep -n EAGAIN" output and found that many
>>places check "errno == EAGAIN" without checking "errno ==
>>EINTR", both for read(2) and write(2).
> 
> 
> I suspect it's mostly in my code. It's a stupid quirk of mine.
> 
> You might as well delete those thing, but yes, if you want to replace them 
> with testing both EAGAIN and EINTR, go right ahead.
>

It might be that some of those should either be replaced by fwrite/fread or there should be a generic wrapper (usually called xwrite/xread).

	-hpa