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Date:      Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:23:27 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Mark Stout <mcs@vpm.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What is: read: Interrupted system call
Message-ID:  <20000407132326.I4381@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000407110957.01a324c0@vpm.com>; from mcs@vpm.com on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 11:32:22AM %2B0100
References:  <4.3.2.20000407110957.01a324c0@vpm.com>

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* Mark Stout <mcs@vpm.com> [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."


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