Subject: bug#33965: [bug-diffutils] bug#33965: handling of closed file descriptors

From: Bruno Haible <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 10:41:20 +0100

> > It is like saying that it would be OK for a program, when interrupted
> > through Ctrl-Z and restarted through 'fg', to stop processing and exit
> > with a message "read: Interrupted system call". ...
> > POSIX allowed the kernel to return from a
> > read() system call with errno = EINTR. But users don't want this. So it
> > was seen as a bug in the program, and fixed.
> 
> If by "users" you mean "programs that make system calls"

By "users don't want this" I meant: Users don't want programs to terminate
with an error message "read: Interrupted system call", just because they
used the job control features of the shell.

Bruno