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Re: ecos and gettimeofday()


Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> writes:

> 
> Hi Nick
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.
> 
> What i don't understand now is why only the fileio package uses these
> functions. I would of expected at least the functions in the POSIX
> package to also use these.
> 
> What am i missing?

Many of the POSIX package calls are wrappers for straight kernel
calls, or are otherwise immune to the effects of having a signal
handler run. 

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