[MUD-Dev] Yet another update on threads and signals

Adam J. Thornton adam at phoenix.Princeton.EDU
Fri Aug 14 10:22:41 CEST 1998


OK, so trapping the signal in a signal handler won't work, because the
POSIX thread functions are not reentrant.

However, using sigwait() will, so instead of a signal handler, I'll spawn a
thread whose only purpose in like is to wait for that signal and, upon
receiving it, do its magic.  It can just block in sigwait() until the
signal is delivered.

Adam
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