From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Nigel J. Andrews <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>
Cc: Command Prompt, Inc. <pgsql-general@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Steve Lane <slane@fmpro.com>
Cc: jlx@commandprompt.com
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: MacOS X Shared Buffers (SHMMAX)?
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:49:13 -0400
Message-ID: <5589.1022165353@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205231506380.12663-100000@ponder.fairway2k.co.uk>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205231506380.12663-100000@ponder.fairway2k.co.uk>
"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:
> My 'standard' way of doing this is to loop while the error is EAGAIN
> but with a small retry counter to limit the number of attempts
> made. Hopefully the second time through the call isn't interrupted
> again.
I think you're thinking of EINTR, not EAGAIN.
regards, tom lane
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