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To: "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>
Cc: "Command Prompt, Inc." <pgsql-general@commandprompt.com>,
	Steve Lane <slane@fmpro.com>, jlx@commandprompt.com,
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Subject: Re: MacOS X Shared Buffers (SHMMAX)? 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>
	message dated "Thu, 23 May 2002 15:09:53 +0100"
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:49:13 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"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