UNIX-WIZARDS Digest V12#132

[Lionel Hummel]

> program 1 sends a SIGUSR1 signal to program 2, then waits to
> receive a SIGUSR1 signal from program 2. It repeats this 100
> times.

> program 2 just catches SIGUSR1 signals from program 1 and sends
> a SIGUSR1 signal back.

> What surprises me is that it takes 70 seconds to send the 100
> signals back and forth! 

> Is it possible to get better timing on this? I guess what I'd
> like to do is to force a context switch when I send the signal
> and get much better "turn" around.

The sigpause() call, which is documented on the sigset(2) man page,
will do what you want.

Using your example but including a sigpause(SIGUSR1), I find that a
pair of processes bouncing a SIGUSR1 back and forth 100 times executes
in less than a second.
                                      < Lionel
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