I've recently done some fixes in winPR with timers with completion and I've encoutered a case that you may find interesting.

It's about handling EINTR: when a system call in interrupted by an incoming signal, you'll get a -1 return code and errno set to EINTR. So usually when you want to be protected against that behaviour you'll code something like:

#include <sys/select.h>
#include <errno.h>

void myFunction() {
    struct fd_set rset;
    int status, max_fd;

    ...


    do {
        ret = select(max_fd, &rset, NULL, NULL, NULL);
    } while (ret < 0 && errno == EINTR);
}

Ok, so problem treated, you can apply that scheme for any system call and you're done, isn't it ?

The poll case

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