Incorrect handling of EINTR in Bazaar

Martin (gzlist) gzlist at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 19 01:42:17 GMT 2010


First off, having spent a week reading bits and pieces of conflicting
documentation on the internet before posting this thread, I decided
that not only did I not understand unix signals, but no one else does
either.

On 19/02/2010, Andrew Bennetts <andrew.bennetts at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think this is right.  Even when 'file' is a pipe, e.g. when using
> stdin/stdout?  I certainly see EINTR in this case.  Try this:

Pipes do seem to be a valid concern where regular files are not, good catch.

> Ouch!

The good news is it's been fixed for seven months already.

Martin



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