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Subject: Re: signals and read blocking - EINTR
In-Reply-To: From Samuel Thibault at "Nov 1, 2005 12:48:03 pm"
From: Jim Easton <jim AT cs DOT ualberta DOT ca>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel DOT thibault AT ens-lyon DOT org>
Date: 	Wed, 2 Nov 2005 01:10:13 -0700 (MST)
CC: Jim Easton <jim AT cs DOT ualberta DOT ca>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-Id: <S577272AbVKBIKN/20051102081023Z+166@sunkay.cs.ualberta.ca>
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Hi

Samuel Thibald wrote:
> Mmm, I had a look at posix, at it says "The state of these flags is
> not specified for signal()." So that you indeed need to explicitely
> unset the flag, else the behavior is implementation-dependant (BSD sets
> SA_RESTART and clears SA_RESETHAND for instance).
> 
> Alternatively, siginterrupt() might be useful, but sigaction is
> preferred.
> 
> Regards,
> Samuel

Yes, I will keep that in mind.

There are a couple of other flags that are set on the other
architectures which I haven't investigated yet (read; I don't know
what they do), but it's working now on Cygwin, Solaris, SGI, AIX and
Linux.  (The sun4s need a little tweeking)

Thank you and Chris Faylor for your help - much appreciated.

	Jim


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