Re: glib patch to handle EINTR in poll

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Elliot Lee wrote:

> 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.

signal handlers may very well be handled through a main loop
source, so dispatching is actualy required.

> > 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. :)

nope, that'd flood a list intended for discussions with maintenance
mails from bugs.gnome.org.

> 
> -- Elliot
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> 

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ciaoTJ