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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:40:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Niall Douglas <s_sourceforge@nedprod.com>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: recvfrom() not a thread cancellation point
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.43.0603311535210.7507-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <442D9E8C.7186.4BAD0@s_sourceforge.nedprod.com>

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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Niall Douglas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How do I receive UDP packets using recvfrom() when it would seem that
> recvfrom() is not a thread cancellation point on FreeBSD 6.0?

1) select() or poll() instead, then recvfrom().  UDP packets
   are never partial IIRC.

2) Unmask a signal in the thread doing the recvfrom(), then
   use pthread_kill() to interrupt it (don't use SA_RESTART
   for sa_flags in the signal action).

> Is there an alternative method of receiving UDP packets which is
> thread cancellable? The best I can see is using plain read() but this
> of course won't return the sender of the UDP packet.

-- 
DE




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