SIGCHLD race condition?

mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Thu Oct 4 04:28:27 EST 2001


By the pipe solution I assume you mean #define USE_PIPE 1 .. We already
support Pipes for platforms that need them.

- Ben

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Paul Menage wrote:

> >
> >
> >On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Paul Menage wrote:
> >
> >> - Switch to using queued signals for network readiness events, then use
> >> sigtimedwait() or similar instead of select(). I imagine that this would
> >> be a fairly major overhaul of the networking code.
> >>
> >
> >And how does one emulate sigtimedwait() for those older platforms that
> >lack it?  I don't remember seeing it listed in the NeXTStep manpages.
>
> So scrap that idea then - it's more of a change than I'd think people
> would want anyway.
>
> How about the pipe solution? That should be relatively portable.
>
> Paul
>
>




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