On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Or if you're getting a SIGWINCH in the middle of it. > > Any POSIX system will interrupt the transfer and return a short read on > receiving a signal. Only for interruptible fd's, though, which normally a real "file" won't be. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html