I have a thread that requires sleep() to run for 5 mins, but I would
like this to return when I send a SIGTERM from the command line. SIGTERM
is caught by a process-wide handler. So far I have no success. What I've
tried so far...
1. Sending a SIGTERM to the process goes directly to the signal handler
and does not interrupt the threads.
1. Empty the signal mask of the thread using pthread_sigmask() and still
my sleep() inside a thread is not interrupted.
2. Send a SIGTERM to the thread using pthread_kill() inside my
handler...but my signal handler catches this again resulting in an
endless catching and pthread_kill() loop.
Any suggestions welcome. At the moment I might just sleep() every few
seconds and poll a particular variable but I would prefer sleeping for 5
or more minutes.
Carlo
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