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Re: TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY macro missing


On Jul 10 14:45, Fedin Pavel wrote:
>  Hello!
> 
>  My cross-compiling activity has discovered that TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY() macro
> is often used, but missing in our includes. GNU code of this macro is below:
> --- cut ---
> # define TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY(expression) \
>   (__extension__
> \
>     ({ long int __result;
> \
>        do __result = (long int) (expression);
> \
>        while (__result == -1L && errno == EINTR);
> \
>        __result; }))
> --- cut ---
>  This is used in elf-utils and Prelink. What about adding it ?

That's defined in unistd.h, which is newlib territory.  Care to send a
patch to the newlib mailing list?


Thanks,
Corinna

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