Re: RTT::FileDescriptorActivity and hasError()

On Sep 05, 2014, at 04:14, Matthias Goldhoorn <[email protected]> wrote:

> i just discovered that the RTT::FileDescriptorActivity::hasError() 
> function returns true if a file descriptor read was interrupted by a 
> System interrupt.
> 
> (errno -4), this is afaik not a error in general, the hasError() 
> function should only return critical errors, from my point of view if a 
> read is too often interrupted the timeout should catch. I would like 
> therefore to modify the function that errnor -4 is ignored.
> 
> Thougts?

Where errno-4 == EINTR, I think that this should be configurable. Not all applications will want to ignore this, while some will want to ignore it. I don’t think we can make a global policy decision here.

YMMV
S

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