On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: >> This wrapper just restarts on EINTR, but not on EAGAIN like xread >> does. This gives less guarantees on the actual reading rather than >> on returning fast. > > The last sentence is a bit hard to parse, by the way. >
I'd imagine something more like: Provide a wrapper to read(), similar to xread(), that restarts on EINTR but not EAGAIN (or EWOULDBLOCK). This enables the caller to handle polling itself, possibly polling multiple sockets or performing some other action. Regards, Jake -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
