Re: Interrupted stat() calls

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Reid Madsen <address@hidden> writes:

  rm> With this workaround in place, GNUmake never reports
  rm> the above error for existing files.

  rm> Please consider incorporating this, or something better,
  rm> in the next release.

There are actually a large number of calls in GNU make which might get
interrupted, such as readdir, etc. and these can also cause problems.

I took a different tack than trying to safeguard all of them: instead I
only allow interruptible system calls during the particular jobserver
operations that require it: in this area I know exactly which systems
calls I'm using and can handle EINTR in a much simpler way.  Everywhere
else I disable them.

This has been in CVS for a while now; if you're interested in testing it
you can build from there.


I also hope to have a release candidate for 3.79.2 out shortly.

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