From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 11 2:12:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB17F37B400 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.com (mailout09.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F0143E65 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:12:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd03.sul.t-online.de by mailout09.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17dolP-0007gL-03; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:11:55 +0200 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[80.131.104.174]) by fmrl03.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17domc-1HLQx6C; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:13:10 +0200 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (Magelan [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7B9Bpx48648; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:11:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7B9Bo0B000871; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:11:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:11:50 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Bruce Evans Cc: iedowse@maths.tcd.ie, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is anyone else having trouble with dump(8) on -current? Message-Id: <20020811111150.4fc4e70e.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20020811014214.D17412-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <200208101504.aa40149@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20020811014214.D17412-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Organization: Independend X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:03:40 +1000 (EST) Bruce Evans wrote: > I don't know how open() of a disk device can be interrupted by a > signal in practice. Most disk operations don't check for signals. How close is our open() to the standards? Does any of them specify EINTR as a possible errno and if yes, shouldn't we write programs which respect the standards (where applicable) instead of just adapting them to our kernel? Bye, Alexander. -- Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message