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Sun Aug 31 23:38:04 CEST 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-August/136093.html

On 08/31/2014 02:19 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>:
>
>> Sorry but I don't understand your remark. What is your problem with
>> retrying syscall on EINTR?
>
> The application will often want the EINTR return (exception) instead of
> having the function resume on its own.

Examples?

As an ignorant person in this area, I do not know why I would ever want to have EINTR raised instead just getting the 
results of, say, my read() call.

--
~Ethan~

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[Python-Dev] RFC: PEP 475, Retry system calls failing with EINTR