Why doesn't _IO_do_write in fileops.c check for EINTR?

[Ulrich Drepper]

"George T. Talbot" <george@moberg.com> writes:

> Might a better sequence in (for example) _IO_do_write() look like this:
> 
>   do {
>     count = _IO_SYSWRITE (fp, data, to_do);
>   } while ((count == (_IO_size_t) -1) && (errno == EINTR));

No.  The write functions must be able to time out.  Setting alarm()
and try writing, returning after a while because the device does not
respond.  Leave libio as it is.

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