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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:51:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: manipulating sigmask from filesystems and drivers 
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Roman Zippel wrote:
> >
> > In short, this is not something that can be discussed. It's a cold fact, a
> > law of UNIX if you will.
> 
> Any program setting up signal handlers should expext interrupted i/o,
> otherwise it's buggy.

Roman, THAT IS JUST NOT TRUE!

Go read the standards. Some IO is not interruptible. This is not something 
I'm making up, and this is not something that can be discussed about. The 
speed of light in vacuum is 'c', regardless of your own relative speed. 
And file reads are not interruptible.

			Linus

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