[PATCH] ash: clear NONBLOCK flag from stdin when in foreground

Laurent Bercot ska-dietlibc at skarnet.org
Thu Aug 25 01:45:33 UTC 2011


On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:37:11PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> Got just a few minutes ago in a freshly opened gnome term:
> 
> + --------------------------
> | bash: printf: write error: Interrupted system call
> | $ _
> |
> |
> 
> Real world stroke again. EINTR which "can't happen" happened.

 Absolutely. So let me step in again:
 http://www.skarnet.org/software/skalibs/libstddjb/safewrappers.html

 (But I do agree with you, Denys, that the best place to fix stray
EINTRs would be the kernel.)

-- 
 Laurent


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