Netscape: 'Interrupted system call'

[assar@stacken.kth.se]

Robert Watson <robert at cyrus.watson.org> writes:
> Error opening /afs/andrew/usr4/rnw/www/teletubbies.gif
> Interrupted system call
> 
> Don't ask about the filename. :-)  Apparently Netscape does not anticipate
> receiving EINTR during open()?  Or something like that.  I seem to recall
> that Coda had this problem for a while; however, one FreeBSD 4.0, open(2)
> clearly lists EINTR as a possible error return, so it seems more like a
> Netscape problem really.  (I could be mistaken)

This was a problem with emacs that was using SIGIO and got interrupted
by that.  So either, that code is not working on FreeBSD 4.0 (but I
believe it should) or Netscape or doing something else.

Can you run truss/ktrace on Netscape and see what signal it's getting
while running open?

/assar