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- Submitted-by: ka@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (kenneth.s.almquist)
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- In article <1mjjl5INNkj6@ftp.UU.NET> salevin@dal.mobil.com (S. A. Levin [Stewart]) writes:
- > I noticed a few months ago that every once in a while my pipelined jobs
- > on our RS6000 would break when I tried to put them into the background
- > under csh. A few days ago IBM customer support tracked down what was
- > happening. They say that under POSIX if a signal (e.g. SIGTSTP) is
- > received during a read() system call that has not yet received any
- > characters, the read must return an -1 count and set EINTR. (This is
- > not specific to csh.)
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