Re: EINTR on close() in Linux?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
22 Jul 2002 13:32:48 +0100

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 11:38, Ketil Froyn wrote:
>
> If Linux returns EINTR and tears down the fd, this code is bad because

Linux doesn't return -EINTR from close(). It did for a brief while
during development by accident.

While the standard permits it, sanity suggests otherwise (see earlier
discussions)

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