Re: glib patch to handle EINTR in poll

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Tim Janik wrote:

> glib shouldn't retry polling if it got EINTR, that'd defeat
> signal handlers setup in the application, instead it should
> just do its normal dispatching work.

It won't defeat the signal handlers (signal handlers will be called no
matter what the process is doing), and there is no dispatching to do when
EINTR is received.

> gtk-bugs is the wrong list to send such patches btw, we've got
> gtk-devel-list for that purpose.

Then forward gtk-bugs to gtk-devel-list. :)

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