On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Kamesh Chitti wrote:

> I am using the curl c library in one of my applications to ftp data to a
> remote server. Once in a while,
> curl_easy_perform fails with select error 4 (EINTR). I tracked down the
> code to Curl_GetFTPResponse in ftp.c.

What do you mean it fails with "select error 4"? Are you saying that select()
fails and errno is set? If so, why does this happen? I was pretty confident we
only needed to check for the EINTR case when we read the response, not for
select() itself.

> I was wondering why not just continue if errno == EINTR (or EAGAIN for that
> matter) instead of returning an error.

When/where?

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