4 Nov
2018
4 Nov
'18
1:28 p.m.
Chris Hanson <cmhanson(a)eschatologist.net> wrote:
If anyone ever asks me about the elegance of UNIX,
there’s one word, or really term, that springs to mind: EINTR.
The fact that man pages on modern systems still describe calls as returning -1 with errno
set to EINTR baffles me.
-- Chris
Can you explain this some more? This sounds like a claim that UNIX
isn't elegant. But I'm not following whatever it is you're saying.
Thanks,
Arnold