Re: [Newbie] send() blocks or not

From: Valentin Nechayev (netch_at_segfault.kiev.ua)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:43:43 +0300

>>> Villy Kruse wrote:

VK> It doesn't hurt to allow for incomplete write() or send(). If a blocked
VK> write is interrupted by write it usualy becomes a partial write returning
VK> the number of bytes actualy written, or it may return with an EINTR error.
It _cannot_ return with EINTR having partial success. If you know system
when write() can return with EINTR when at least one byte is written,
rm -rf it, immediately, and install something working.
VK> This behaviour is system dependent and is one of the things that makes
VK> SystemV and BSD signal handling different.
No tie with signal handling here.

-netch-