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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:15:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Dmitry Dicky <diwil@dataart.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: recvfrom() and signals
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001219131209.11408A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001219175732.A7496@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie>

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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, David Malone wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:45:05AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > See the sigaction manpage and how one enable/disables system call
> > restarts.
> 
> He is setting the signal handler with signal(), which calls
> sigaction() without the SA_RESTART flag set, so it seems that should
> interrupt recvfrom().

Bzzt :-)  Alfred's correct.  Read the manpage for signal again.

To Dmitry:  Don't use antiquated signal.  Use sigaction and don't
set the SA_RESTART flag.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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