From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: Signal handling - HELP!
7 Sep 1997 17:33:19 -0700 :
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	"'Ian Collins'"
	<Ian AT kiwiplan DOT co DOT nz>
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Ian Collins wrote:
> When a signal (e.g. SIGALRM) is triggored while in certain system calls
> (e.g, read), the POSIX signal definition states that after completion of
> the signal handler, the system call can be made to continue (SA_RESTART)
> or to return with an error status set.

There is no way to interrupt win32 syscalls...

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