On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:47:37PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Chris Jones <chris@mt.sri.com> writes:
> > No, it could be any number of other things. The first that comes to
> > mind is EINTR. How about something closer to:
>
> Writes to disk files don't suffer EINTR as far as I've ever heard
> (if they do, there are an awful lot of broken programs out there).
Yeah, my mistake.
> More to the point, a kernel that aborted a write because of an interrupt
> *and failed to set errno* would certainly be broken. The question is
> what to assume when we see that the write did not change errno.
If write didn't return -1, it shouldn't have set errno. A short write
count isn't an error condition.
Chris
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