Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!paris.Berkeley.EDU!mcgrath From: mcgrath@paris.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Write calls which do partial writes Message-ID: Date: 10 May 89 02:00:28 GMT References: <103@matrix.UUCP> <10198@smoke.BRL.MIL> <18735@mips.mips.COM> <530@visdc.UUCP> <372@ladcgw.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Hackers Anonymous International, Ltd., Inc. (Applications welcome) Lines: 14 In-reply-to: frank@ladcgw.UUCP's message of 6 May 89 06:37:29 GMT In article <372@ladcgw.UUCP> frank@ladcgw.UUCP (Frank Mayhar) writes: >As of System V release 3 the sighold and sigrelse functions were added >in order to establish critical regions of code. In this way you can be >sure that your system calls won't be interrupted. About d*mn time! So, in release 3, System V has caught up to 4.1 BSD. Impressive. -- Roland McGrath Free Software Foundation, Inc. roland@ai.mit.edu, uunet!ai.mit.edu!roland Copyright 1989 Roland McGrath, under the GNU General Public License, version 1.