From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2005-01-22T14:20:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Interrupted system call and telnet.rb

In article <873bwujbzp.fsf@coco.kazmier.com>,
  Pete Kazmier <pete-temp-20050120@kazmier.com> writes:

> Has anyone else experienced an interrupted system call when using
> telnet.rb?  I use it frequently to do a large provisioning job which
> very rarely completes because read(2) gets interrupted.  The call to
> read(2) in made by this line in telnet.rb:
>
>      c = @sock.sysread(1024 * 1024)

I think there is another option: readpartial.  It restarts read(2) on
EINTR (and EAGIN).  It is available since 1.8.3, though.
-- 
Tanaka Akira