On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Neal Becker wrote:
> A simple way is available to fix this. We can wrap all the needed
> syscalls. Define the wrapper in a header file that all source files
> include. Make these wrappers inline (where available) so performance
> will not be degraded.
> e.g.:
>
> inline int READ (a, b, c) {
> int res;
> do {
> res = read (a, b, c);
> } while (res < 0 && errno == EINTR);
> return res;
> }
I'm afraid I don't understand. There are places in Exim where one wants
system calls to be interrupted, usually for timeouts.
I suppose I just don't know enough about Unix.
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