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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org>
Cc: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: help needed in threads.. (Signals)
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> 
> Probably any externally generated signals should be delivered to
> the UTS, and the UTS can request that blocked doohickeys(*) be
> interrupted and have thier tsleep() return EINTR.
> 
> (*) whatever the blockable contexts are called.

blockable contexts are called....
(drumroll)....    "threads"


julian



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