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From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Desperately missing a working "pselect()" or similar...
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 22:37:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15pbid-0007fi-00@calista.inka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BBDD37D.56D7B359@isg.de>

In article <3BBDD37D.56D7B359@isg.de> you wrote:
> Without a proper pselect() implementation (the one in glibc is just
> a mock-up that doesn't prevent the race condition) I'm currently
> unable to come up with a good idea on how to wait on both types
> of events.

Isnt select() returning with EINTR?

> A somewhat bizarre solution would be to have the process create
> a pipe-pair, select on the reading end, and let the signal-handler
> write a byte to the pipe - but this has at least the drawback
> you always spoil one "select-cycle" for each signal you get

Well, you can use the pipe instead of the signal. What kind of signal do you
try to trap? Looks like you want to do critical high load stuff with a
signal.

Greetings
Bernd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-05 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-05 15:36 lkv
2001-10-05 16:19 ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-05 16:28   ` lkv
2001-10-05 16:36 ` Christopher Friesen
2001-10-05 16:40   ` lkv
2001-10-05 20:37 ` Bernd Eckenfels [this message]
2001-10-05 23:05   ` Alex Pennace
2001-10-05 23:13     ` Alan Cox
2001-10-05 23:52       ` Alex Pennace
2001-10-05 23:22     ` Neil Brown
2001-10-05 23:30       ` Alex Pennace
2001-10-05 23:43         ` David Schwartz
2001-10-06  0:03       ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 16:32 lkv
2001-10-08 16:44 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 17:06   ` lkv
2001-10-08 17:24     ` Alan Cox
2001-10-09 13:37 ` Jan Hudec
2001-10-13 16:05   ` Jamie Lokier

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