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Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity?

From Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.misc, comp.lang.c
Subject Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity?
Date 2025-10-04 00:59 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <10bpkh1$25arg$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I'm not sure where this effect originated from; whether from the
"host language" (Algol 68/Genie), the underlying implementation
language ("C", libc), or from the OS (Linux) or the distribution
setup. - Maybe someone has an idea what's going on here...?

In context of a Genie (Algol 68) program, after leaving the
terminal some minutes while the program was waiting in a 'read',
the program terminated by an interrupt. So I set up this simple
call to reproduce it... - it gets interrupted after ~21 minutes
of inactivity.


$ date ; genie -x 'read (newline)' ; date
Fr., 03. Oktober 2025, 16:09:29 (CEST)
1     (read (newline))
       1
a68g: runtime error: 1: error transputting PROC (REF FILE) VOID value,
interrupted system call, in VOID
closed-clause starting at "(" in this line.
Fr., 03. Oktober 2025, 16:30:59 (CEST)


The maintainer of the Genie system told me that he has no such
logic implemented in his tool, and he suspected the libc as the
source of the interrupted system call.

Has anyone observed such behavior (maybe in similar contexts,
when waiting for input, where no own interrupt timer has been
set up)?

Thanks.

Janis

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Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-04 00:59 +0200
  Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-10-03 23:31 +0000
    Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-04 01:57 +0200
    Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-04 00:28 +0000
      Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-04 02:41 +0200
        Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-04 01:07 +0000
      Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2025-10-04 01:04 +0000
        Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-04 01:23 +0000
        Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-04 01:28 +0000
          Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-10-04 02:12 +0000
        Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-04 02:35 +0000
        Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2025-10-04 12:52 +0000
          Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-04 18:50 +0000
  Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> - 2025-10-03 19:33 -0400
    Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-03 23:54 +0000
    Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-04 02:00 +0200
      Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> - 2025-10-03 20:26 -0400
        Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2025-10-05 11:39 +0000
          Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> - 2025-10-06 04:05 -0400
            Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2025-10-06 10:46 +0000
            Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-06 22:04 +0000
  Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2025-10-04 00:18 +0000
    Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-04 02:27 +0200
    Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-10-04 02:13 +0000
    Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-10-05 11:43 -0700
  Re: Interrupted system call on read after ~20 minutes inactivity? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-07 16:29 +0200

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