Re: EAGAIN

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From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 12 1999 - 00:23:50 EST


 Please try it now and see whether it works for you.

        - Godmar

>
> I think so - can you set something in the alarm handler to flag the timeout
> perhaps?
>
> Tim
>
> Godmar Back wrote:
>
> > Note, though, that if Linux gives you spurious wakeups in this way,
> > we can't implement timeouts at all with the simple check-wait-check-timeout
> > scheme. Instead, we must record the timeout as an absolute value, and
> > check everytime we return from read whether time has advanced far
> > enough that it's time to time out.
> >
> > Maybe that's the more robust way of doing it anyway?
> > Should I try that?
> >
> > - Godmar
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