Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:02:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using select() to implement a delay Message-ID: <199904201902.MAA99248@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199904200945.LAA28715@bowtie.nl> <371C53FE.3CE190C9@cdsec.com> <371C5501.3AA0A34@cdsec.com>
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:I'm starting to suspect that this is the case, and that the signal
:is SIGCHLD. The process does spin off child processes, and there may be
Another thing you can do, if you want, is block all signals during
the select using sigprocmask(). But this entails three system calls
( sigprocmask(), select(), sigprocmask() ) instead of two in the nominal
case ( gettimeofday(), select(), [ gettimeofday() if select() returns
that it was interrupted ] ).
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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