[MPlayer-advusers] dumpstream: bails out on retriable errors

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:08:27AM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 00:06 -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:59:42PM -0800, klchxbec wrote:
> > > Or if I suspend/resume
> > > 
> > > read error:: Interrupted system call
> 
> > when the file descriptor is set to nonblocking mode. EINTR is invalid
> > unless a signal handler is installed and the corresponding signal
> > occurred. Neither of these should be the case for MPlayer..
> 
> Then what would you expect suspend/resume to do? I haven't checked what
> standards say about that but I don't really see alternatives to EINTR.

There's no reason for it to have any effect on the read call.

Rich