On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:01:43PM -0700, jw schultz wrote:
> The read system call is interuptable, period. Disk access
> is considered slow. If you code asuming it will not be
> interupted or that an interupt will cause a return of -1
> your code may break on Linux and will certainly not be
> portable.
Linux does not permit interrupting regular file reads on local disks;
only NFS supports it. Maybe 2.5 is the time to change this.
-ben
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