XENIX <-> ULTRIX interrupts & traps

Kenneth R. Ballou ballou at brahms
Thu Nov 13 14:45:55 AEST 1986


In article <9180 at sun.uucp> guy at sun.UUCP writes:
[The next three lines are my stupid remark.  --- K. Ballou]
>> Now, if you browse through signal.h, you will note an error value called
>> EINTR.  At least on BSD 4.2, if a signal arrives while read is awaiting
>> data, read returns -1 and errno is set to EINTR:
>
>Well, not really; if you browse through "errno.h" you'll find EINTR, but you
>sure won't find it in "signal.h".

Quite right.  I was too busy fuming over what I had just read to check
my response carefully.  Sorry ...

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Kenneth R. Ballou		...!ucbvax!brahms!ballou
Dept. of Mathematics		ballou at brahms.berkeley.EDU
University of California
Berkeley, California  94720



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