http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=95669367427640&w=2 (fwd)

[Andrew Morgan]

In situations like this, its usual that you would check for EINTR and
retry the read if that's what you got. (EAGAIN is what you get when you
do non-blocking IO and there was nothing to read.)

Cheers

Andrew

John P Speno wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 03:50:50AM +0200, Harold Gutch wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 09:55:56AM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> > > +                   if (errno == EGAIN)
> > > +                           continue;
> >
> > Just wondering, as my only OpenBSD box currently is down -
> > shouldn't that be EAGAIN instead of EGAIN?
> 
> Yes, it should, and that still doesn't fix the problem I'm seeing with scp.
> My system trace seems to indicate that the problem occurs when a read() is
> interrupted.