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krb5b7: telnetd: ttloop() needs to reset read() on EINTR

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Sep 17 17:19:56 1996

Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 17:16:52 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@jik.tiac.net>
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU, kerberos@MIT.EDU

The ttloop() function in telnetd needs to retry read() if it gets a
negative return value and errno is EINTR.  Here's a patch:

--- telnetd/utility.c	1996/09/17 20:08:33	1.1
+++ telnetd/utility.c	1996/09/17 20:41:40	1.2
@@ -59,8 +59,11 @@
     if (nfrontp-nbackp) {
 	netflush();
     }
+read_again:
     ncc = read(net, netibuf, sizeof netibuf);
     if (ncc < 0) {
+	if (errno == EINTR)
+	    goto read_again;
 	syslog(LOG_INFO, "ttloop:  read: %m");
 	exit(1);
     } else if (ncc == 0) {

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