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Subject: Re: EINTR on close() in Linux?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ketil Froyn <ketil-kernel@froyn.net>
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On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 11:38, Ketil Froyn wrote:
> 
> If Linux returns EINTR and tears down the fd, this code is bad because

Linux doesn't return -EINTR from close(). It did for a brief while
during development by accident.

While the standard permits it, sanity suggests otherwise (see earlier
discussions)

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