Re: [Sbcl-devel] should socket-connect retry on eintr?

[Brian M. <br...@ma...>]

On Nov 6, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Chun Tian (binghe) wrote:

> Hmmm, your explanation is sensible. But I'm still worried about  
> that: is there any chance the "SOCKET-CONNECT with automatic retry"  
> could fall into some kind of loop? i.e. EINTR, retry, EINTR,  
> retry, ... I don't know much about SBCL's behavior on lack of  
> resources: if SOCKET-CONNECT return EINTR because no memory or no  
> file descriptor (max-fd is always limited), "auto retry" may cause a  
> indefinite loop ...


Those situations wouldn't cause EINTR, but another condition. I don't  
see any way that automatic retry for EINTR could cause a loop.

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