On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:44:45 +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote:

> Could you use something like pthread_cond_timedwait, and wake the  
> thread up from the signal handler?

That was my first thought too, then I read this in the man page:

    ASYNC-SIGNAL SAFETY
        The condition functions are  not  async-signal  safe,  and
        should not be called from a signal handler. In particular,
        calling pthread_cond_signal or pthread_cond_broadcast from a
        signal handler may deadlock the calling thread.

So no, it's unlikely to work.


Cheers,

John
-- 
Same diagnosis on both problems: Inverse Square Law.  Your lusers are
in too close a proximity to your systems.  Life would be comparitively
peaceful if faroff script-kiddies were your main problem.
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