Re: Stop signals and interruption of system calls on Linux

[Paul Eggert <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At Sat, 14 Feb 2004 11:57:19 +0100 (MET), "Michael T Kerrisk" 
<yyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxx> writes:

> I think that saves my argument: Linux should not be returning 
> EINTR at this point.

This topic came up in a POSIX.1 standards meeting on April 22, 1993,
and the consensus of that meeting also agreed with you.

> (And of course I'm still curious if any other implementation behaves
> like Linux.)

Long-ago AIX hosts had that bug as well, but they were fixed after
that POSIX.1 discussion of a decade ago.  For more details about this,
please see:

David A. Willcox (Motorola MCG - Urbana)
Job Control and POSIX
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1r77ojINN85n%40ftp.UU.NET>
1993-04-22