James Carlson wrote: > > > There are at least two problems with that latter concept. First, as > previously explained, there's no way to send a signal to a thread. > You can send it to a _process_, but not to a _thread_. Threads don't > have separate PIDs. (At least not on any POSIX-conforming system.) > > Secondly, if you've masked off signals in those other threads, then > what possible purpose could be served by deliberately sending them > that signal? That wouldn't do anything. > >
Hmm... checkout pthread_kill(3c) .... you can deliver a signal to a specific thread. But as far as I know you can -only- do this from inside the process containing the thread to be signaled. -- Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division, General Dynamics C4 Systems http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/ Phone: 951 325-2134 Fax: 951 325-2191 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
