Re: Ctrl+C doesn't interrupt process waiting for I/O

[Alan Cox]

> Applications should not assume that write() (or other syscalls) can't 
> return EINTR.  Not all filesystems have a bounded-time backing store.

Unix tradition (and thus almost all applications) believe file store
writes to be non signal interruptible. It would not be safe or practical
to change that guarantee.

Alan
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