From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 8 23:11:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B99DE37B403 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 23:11:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (InterJet.elischer.org [192.168.1.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA46350 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 00:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B494657.D3B7BF48@elischer.org> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 22:51:19 -0700 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: help needed in threads.. (Signals) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can someone tell me if an alarm() call that sets an alarm signal for some time in the futire (in a threaded environment, has teh signal delivered to the process (an random thread), the same thread that made the request, or a predesignated thread.. I just can't work out what the right way to handle it in the code is.. posix? Julian -- +------------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / hard at work in | / \ julian@elischer.org +------>x USA \ a very strange | ( OZ ) \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ presently in San Francisco \_/ \\ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message