Building latest Unix VM - how?

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Sat Jan 19 19:27:44 UTC 2002


"Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu> is widely believed to have written:

> CVS is inconsistent right now, I'm sorry to say -- I got interrupted
> halfway through, and it's not clear what will happen next.
Pleae, please, please finish off your uploading Lex. It's really
unpleasant to have an inconsistent state!

> Do this:
> 
> 	while((fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY)) < 0
> 	      &&  errno == EINTR)
> 		;
> 
> 
> Yes, with *every* system call....  Yay Unix!  Some Unices have
> improvements on this state, but I think that many do not, and so this
> must be done the hard way to be portable.
Ack. This is an early April Fool's joke, right? 


tim
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