Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:52:28 -0400 | From | Alex Pennace <> | Subject | Re: Desperately missing a working "pselect()" or similar... |
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On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:13:17AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > The select system call doesn't return EINTR when the signal is caught > > prior to entry into select. > > Your friend there is siglongjmp/sigsetjmp - the same problem was true > with old versions of alarm that did > > alarm(num) > pause() > > on a heavily loaded box. > > Using siglongjmp cures that
I was naive about siglongjump bouncing through the stack over a system call, but it appears to be safe. Excellent. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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