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From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Wed, 2006-Feb-01 11:44:08 +0000, Pete French wrote:
>I have a piece of coode which does some networking, in which I see read
>and write calls failing with 'Interrupted system call' from time to time.

You will get EINTR if the interrupt occurs before any data is read
or written.

-- 
Peter Jeremy