> There's an essay somewhere I remember reading where an ITS hacker looks at Unix for how it handles the interrupted system call problem and comes away horrifi

> There's an essay somewhere I remember reading where an ITS hacker looks at Unix for how it handles the interrupted system call problem and comes away horrified at the discovery that it makes the user do it via EINTR. Not really the real point of the essay, but yeah there kind of is. Now come with a design (with similar premices, you can't just argue that the whole system call semantic has to change...) which does not involve the user, and we will talk.