From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 12:57:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D0737C19B for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 12:57:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e37KNR126397; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:23:27 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mark Stout Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is: read: Interrupted system call Message-ID: <20000407132326.I4381@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <4.3.2.20000407110957.01a324c0@vpm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000407110957.01a324c0@vpm.com>; from mcs@vpm.com on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 11:32:22AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mark Stout [000407 13:04] wrote: > Hi, > > I started getting the following error when trying to access DBI calls from > within a perl script. I was specifically making calls to an mSQL database > server. > > The error was > > read: Interrupted system call > > What is this error and what causes it and how can I avid it in the future? It means you got a signal sent to your process while it was waiting to read data. Figure out if something is sending you signals. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message