Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 13:29:06 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: peter@spinner.dialix.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen sleep.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970518131753.1299A-100000@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <199705180901.TAA31228@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Sun, 18 May 1997, Bruce Evans wrote: > >Hmm. Perhaps install a temporary dummy SIGALRM handler in the sleep.c stub > >so that it doesn't die if there isn't one. The old setitimer way doesn't > >mess with alarm(2), using nanosleep() wont change that. > > Why would a program generate alarms without installing an alarm handler? They assume sleep() install one for them. It is commonly used way to terminate sleep() in a child since not all sleep implementations terminates by other signals. -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@null.net> http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/
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