Re: Interrupted stat() calls

[Reid Madsen]

Thanks for the feedback...  Will get around to 3.79 eventually.

Reid

 > Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:40:14 -0500
 > Cc: address@hidden
 > From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
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 > %% Reid Madsen <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 >   rm> With this workaround in place, GNUmake never reports
 >   rm> the above error for existing files.
 > 
 >   rm> Please consider incorporating this, or something better,
 >   rm> in the next release.
 > 
 > There are actually a large number of calls in GNU make which might get
 > interrupted, such as readdir, etc. and these can also cause problems.
 > 
 > I took a different tack than trying to safeguard all of them: instead I
 > only allow interruptible system calls during the particular jobserver
 > operations that require it: in this area I know exactly which systems
 > calls I'm using and can handle EINTR in a much simpler way.  Everywhere
 > else I disable them.
 > 
 > This has been in CVS for a while now; if you're interested in testing it
 > you can build from there.
 > 
 > 
 > I also hope to have a release candidate for 3.79.2 out shortly.
 > 
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 > Scientist
 > 

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