From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:40:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xread/xwrite: do not worry about EINTR at calling sites.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0512201136430.29711@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vvexkpoxf.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> +static inline ssize_t xwrite(int fd, const void *buf, size_t len)
> +{
> +	ssize_t nr;
> +	while (1) {
> +		nr = write(fd, buf, len);
> +		if ((nr < 0) && (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EINTR))
> +			continue;
> +		return nr;
> +	}
> +}

In another project I'm working on, a user insisted that on Solaris 2.7, 
write(2) sometimes returns ENOENT when it really means "try again". I 
cannot verify, since I don't have Solaris 2.7.

Ciao,
Dscho