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| From: | Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk |
| Subject: | Re: signals interrupting wgetch |
| Date: | Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:34:20 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
John Gruenenfelder <address@hidden> writes:
> Unfortunately, there is no way to tell a single thread to ignore a
> particular signal.
There is: pthread_sigmask.
When a signal is sent to the whole process, an unspecified thread
which has this signal unblocked handles it. This is how it should work
according to POSIX and I think it's how it works with NPTL. It was
broken on Linux 2.4.
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