signal behavior and restarting system calls

a sun (asun@saul7.u.washington.edu)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:30:47 -0800 (PST)

mwood@IUPUI.Edu said:
> Very nice, but sadly nonportable. Sounds like we need an all-Unix
> conference to hash out an acceptable common solution, unless the
> majority really, really loves writing #ifdef s.

Actually, with proper manipulation of sigaction, you get the
restart behavior out of SunOS, and I believe most other UNICES as
well. I think it is SA_RESTART or somesuch. I forget.

really? i thought the problem with SunOS 4 (and other older OSes like
ultrix) was the lack of SA_RESTART. at least that's why i still keep
checks for EINTR around.

-a

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