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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:16:29 +0200
From: Peter Niemayer <niemayer@isg.de>
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Subject: Re: read/recv sometimes returns EAGAIN instead of EINTR on SMPmachines
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"David S. Miller" wrote:

> Can you cite some part of the POSIX spec which states that EAGAIN
> cannot be returned when signals are received by a caller of
> tcp_recvmsg?

See: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/recv.html

IMHO, the text is in no way unclear that EAGAIN is not the correct return
code for the situation while EINTR definitely is.

Regards,

Peter Niemayer