[TUHS] Unix APIs: elegant or not?

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Nov 4, 2018, 4:28 AM Chris Hanson <cmhanson at eschatologist.net wrote:

> If anyone ever asks me about the elegance of UNIX, there’s one word, or
> really term, that springs to mind: EINTR.
>
> The fact that man pages on modern systems still describe calls as
> returning -1 with errno set to EINTR baffles me.
>

Why? It's still a thing...

Warner

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