Re: [PATCH] making dump EINTR resistant

Bruce Evans <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.audit
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> Benjamin Lewis <[email protected]> had some problems with dump, have
> a look at the -current archives (Subject: "Is anyone else having trouble
> with dump(8) on -current?", around May 15.).
>
> I had such a problem on 4.x (perhaps 4.2 or 4.3) once too (I wasn't able
> to reproduce it, Benjamin is able to reproduce it on -current) and wrote
> the attached patch to solve the problem. Since I wrote it for 4.x, it
> runs fine (actually on a 4.4 system which does daily backups to a spare
> harddisk). Benjamin uses it also on a daily basis on -current.
>
> The attached diff is against -current.
>
> Comments?

read(), etc., are supposed to be restarted after signals, so the EINTR
checks should have no effect in most cases.

Bruce


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