Write calls which do partial writes

Roland McGrath mcgrath at paris.Berkeley.EDU
Wed May 10 12:00:28 AEST 1989


In article <372 at ladcgw.UUCP> frank at ladcgw.UUCP (Frank Mayhar) writes:

   >As of System V release 3 the sighold and sigrelse functions were added
   >in order to establish critical regions of code.  In this way you can be
   >sure that your system calls won't be interrupted.

   About d*mn time!

So, in release 3, System V has caught up to 4.1 BSD.  Impressive.
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	Roland McGrath
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