On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Bill Stoddard wrote: > Curious what insite Dean had into suggesting a change from SIGALRM to > SIGUSR2.
the two places the children were hanging (in PR#3906) were in places that the parent was supposed to deliver SIGALRM. they weren't hard hangs because the SIGHUP was working... so i suspected that it was just a problem with SIGALRM delivery. such as some 3rd party library/module (or even solaris libc, or even our own rfc1413) changing the ALRM handler. i actually was wondering if maybe it wasn't legal to do SIGALRM like this... well, not legal on solaris that is -- 'cause i don't think posix has anything to say about it. -dean
