From: Ben Gribaudo <rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-04-15T20:57:21+09:00
Subject: Re: EINTR Error Causing Failure in E-mail Sending Script

Thank you for your thoughts, Tanaka. How would you suggest that I 
restart sysread?

Have a great day,
Ben


Tanaka Akira wrote:

>>    def mail(message)
>>         begin
>>             Net::SMTP.start("localhost", 25) do |smtp|
>>                 smtp.sendmail(message.to_s, message.from.address,
>> message.to.address)
>>             end           
>>         rescue Errno::EINTR
>>             retry
>>         end   
>>     end

...

>I'm not sure why EINTR.
>
>However I think it's better to restart sysread itself instead of 
>Net::SMTP.start.
>
>readpartial can be used instead since 1.8.3.  readpartial doesn't
>raise EINTR.
>  
>