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List:       tuhs
Subject:    Re: [TUHS] Unix APIs: elegant or not?
From:       Donald ODona <mutiny.mutiny () india ! com>
Date:       2018-11-05 14:11:04
Message-ID: 2008946716.58169.1541427064505.JavaMail.tomcat () india-live-be01
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At 4 Nov 2018 22:07:46 +0000 (+00:00) from Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net>:
> And do this for every classic system call, since virtually no client code should \
> ever have to care about EINTR. It was early an implementation expediency that \
> became API and that everyone now has to just deal with because you can't expect the \
> system call interface you use to do this for you. 
> This is the sort of wart that should've been fixed by System V and/or BSD 4 at \
> latest. 
you are right!


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