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From: John Birrell <cimaxp1!jb@melb.werple.net.au>
Subject: Re: The F_SETOWN problem..
To: lambert.org!terry@melb.werple.net.au (Terry Lambert)
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In-Reply-To: <199604082201.PAA03075@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 8, 96 03:01:34 pm
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> > I think you don't get it. The problem is no matter what I do, select()
> > will be only called rarely, which means that a pipe would not help at
> > all. Increasing the buffer size by any means just moves the problem to
> > a different threshold, rather than solving it.
> 
> It seems you have five options:
> 
> 1)	Use pthreads (SIGALARM problem, from private email)

If you use threads, you should be able to solve the "SIGALARM problem"
in a threaded manner, avoiding alarm(3) altogether.

> Signals are bogus.

And so is alarm.

> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> 


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