problems with sigset, sighold and sigrelse.
Spencer W. Thomas
thomas at utah-gr.UUCP
Sat Aug 6 14:22:42 AEST 1983
Right now, I'm trying something like this:
sigset(SIGINT, fn);
sighold(SIGINT);
... some code with writes in it
sigrelse(SIGINT);
Even with this code, some write operation gets interrupted and does not
return normally (# of bytes attempted != # actually written).
This is clearly a confusing situation. What the sighold/sigrelse pair
guarantee you is that the write will have actually written as many
characters as it said it did. It may only do a partial write, though.
Without the sighold/sigrelse pair, the write might say that it had
written 100 characters, while it had actually written only 47. This is
clearly much harder to recover from.
=Spencer
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