Subject: Re: bug#44320: [PATH] [27.1] Make sure send-string-to-terminal send all contents

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:26:18 +0100

On Nov 02 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Too many subtle assumptions for my palate.  In general, stdio is not
> safe in the presence of signals.

That is true, at least if the stream is conntected to a blocking device
(file I/O is not affected by signals).

> Would it be better to suspend SIGIO by calling unrequest_sigio instead
> (and resume it once 'fwrite' returns)?

It might be even better to use POSIX I/O.

Andreas.

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