The Rise of "Worse is Better" https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html … Simplicity is slightly better than correctness, consistency, completeness
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@solardiz EINTR disagreement has nothing to do with "worse is better". If early Unix wanted restarting, loop in libc syscall wrapper is fine -
@solardiz The difference was that they _wanted_ EINTR for misguided things like SIGALRM (all subject to unfixable race conditions). -
@solardiz It only makes sense to adjust PC in kernelspace if you need to support both SA_RESTART and legacy Unix EINTR behavior.
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