On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:00:56AM +0200, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > Well the numbers in that patch seem to work on sol/bsd/linux since 1.3.9 > under just about any set of circumstances. > > So let's think out of the box then - how can we prevent apache from > spinning *forever* in that while loop when something has gone astray ?
If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to detect when EINTR really means "The server is hosed." What is the correlation? I think we should only interpret EINTR as 'try again.' If there's an error (i.e. not EINTR) returned by fcntl(), then we'll handle it accordingly and exit. But, I just don't see how EINTR (no matter how many) is indicative of a fatal error. -- justin
