Re: __attribute__((warn_unused_result)) for NetBSD?

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> I thought syscall restart was an attribute of the signal, not the
>> call.  (Well, calls do have a "this call is restartable" attribute
>> too.)
> Traditionally, it's an attribute of the call.  Then POSIX stuck their
> oar in and decided it ought to be an attribute of the signal;
> unfortunately, that doesn't work,

Doesn't work?  In what sense?  (It looks reasonable to me; I'm
wondering what I'm missing.)

> so now it's sort of both and the real semantics are poorly specified.

Well, yeah, if POSIX didn't bother specifying exactly what they meant,
I can see that would be a problem.

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