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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ??
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:36:26PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> ... or we could put in checks into the kernel for signal pending, and
> return EINTR.

that would be even better indeed.