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Date:      Fri, 8 Sep 2000 15:48:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMPng: catching signals and mutexes.
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1000908154525.10025A@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000908115909.F12231@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> There seems to be no way to specify that a signal is to interrupt
> a wait on a mutex, I'm wondering if we should make it possible to
> do so.

[...]

> I'm not sure I like this at all, shouldn't there be an 
> mtx_enter with some option to return an error if a signal
> arrives?

IMHO, yes.  Solaris has cv_wait_sig() for just that.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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