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Re: io_close proposal
From: |
Marcus Brinkmann |
Subject: |
Re: io_close proposal |
Date: |
Fri, 17 May 2002 02:38:51 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:30:06PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Suppose a signal with SA_RESTART set is required to interrupt a close call
> so that it returns EINTR (e.g. breaking an SO_LINGER wait--but the system
> permitted to treat even an "instantaneous" close call as interrupted with
> EINTR) and then it's unspecified whether the fd is still open or not. In
> that case, any application that might handle a signal while calling close
> must check for EINTR and repeat the close call, or else it may leak the
> descriptor in the event of a signal. So, if that interpretation holds then
> a strictly conforming program that doesn't want to leak must do the loop or
> block signals around calling close or whatnot. That seems like it would
> bite so many existing programs that I wonder if that could really be the
> intent.
At least it is documented this way in the GNU C library manual:
`EINTR'
The `close' call was interrupted by a signal. *Note
Interrupted Primitives::. Here is an example of how to
handle `EINTR' properly:
TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (close (desc));
Thanks,
Marcus
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- Re: io_close proposal, (continued)
- Re: io_close proposal, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/05/16
- Re: io_close proposal, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/19
- Re: io_close proposal, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/05/19
- Re: io_close proposal, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/19
Re: io_close proposal, Roland McGrath, 2002/05/16
- Re: io_close proposal, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/05/16
- Re: io_close proposal, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/05/16
- Re: io_close proposal, Roland McGrath, 2002/05/16
- Re: io_close proposal, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/16
- Re: io_close proposal, Roland McGrath, 2002/05/16
- Re: io_close proposal,
Marcus Brinkmann <=
Re: io_close proposal, Roland McGrath, 2002/05/16
Re: io_close proposal, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2002/05/16
Re: io_close proposal, Roland McGrath, 2002/05/16
Re: io_close proposal, Marcus Brinkmann, 2002/05/16