Charles-François Natali added the comment:

>> Why limit to EBADF? You could also have EPIPE, EINVAL and many other errors.
>> The only error you may not want to report is EAGAIN.
>
> Charles,
> You're right! If all errno cases get covered in the patch,  will It looks 
> reasonable?

Raising an error in case the signal can't be written to the FD
(because the other end didn't drain the pipe/socket) seems reasonable.
You should just retry on EINTR (although any sane implementation
shouldn't return EINTR on non-blocking write, I don't think it's
strictly prohibited by POSIX).

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