As is known, some blocking calls like read and write would return -1 and set errno to EINTR, and we need handle this. My question is: Does this apply for non-blocking calls, e.g, set socket to O_N...

I am programming a user application for a embedded Linux system, and I am using the common functions such as open, close, read, ioctl, etc. for the devices. Now, I read about EINTR, indicates that ...

Is there any expert out there that can help me with the following? I have the following system calls in C: access() unlink() setsockopt() fcntl() setsid() socket() bind() listen() I want to kno...

After trying to run PostgreSQL 9.1 on Amazon Web Services this error has been turning up in the database and application logs. Reinstalling on a different AWS VM has not helped. Strangely the error...

So I'm studying fclose manpage for quite I while and my conclusion is that if fclose is interrupted by some signal, according to the manpage there is no way to recover...? Am I missing some point? ...

A lot of system calls like close( fd ) Can be interrupted by a signal. In this case usually -1 is returned and errno is set EINTR. The question is what is the right thing to do? Say, I still want...

In short, how do you unit test an error condition such as EINTR on a system call. One particular example I'm working on, which could be a case all by itself, is whether it's necessary to call fclo...