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Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler |
Date: |
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:14:01 +0200 |
> From: Sam Steingold <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:06:07 -0400
>
> > But can you explain why it works?
>
> wait3 is a system call, which, when invoked in a loop, prevents the
> kernel from doing anything else (in this case, sending SIGCHLD to
> emacs). sleep allows the kernel some time to pass the signal.
So how portable is this trick?
- busyloop in sigchld_handler, Sam Steingold, 2007/03/11
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler, Kim F. Storm, 2007/03/11
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler, Sam Steingold, 2007/03/11
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler, Sam Steingold, 2007/03/11
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/03/11
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler, Sam Steingold, 2007/03/11
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler, Richard Stallman, 2007/03/12
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler, David Kastrup, 2007/03/12
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler, Richard Stallman, 2007/03/12
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler, Andreas Schwab, 2007/03/11
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler, Kim F. Storm, 2007/03/11
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler, Andreas Schwab, 2007/03/12
- Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler, Sam Steingold, 2007/03/12