AnyEvent::Util::run_cmd bug

[Marc Lehmann]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:11:05AM +1000, Kevin Ryde <user42 at zip.com.au> wrote:
> Is sysread() supposed to return EINTR?

It's supposed to return whatever the read() syscall returns. I guess.

> PerlIOUnix_read() and friends look like they explicitly retry ... if
> that's the final point reached by sysread() these days.

That is true. Unfortunately for us, pp_sysread calls read() more or less
directly on sane platforms.

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