Hi Brandon, That makes a lot of sense...
Thanks, Todd On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Brandon Black <[email protected]> wrote: > Todd Fisher wrote: > > The troble I'm having is the child processes stop receiving signals, from >> the parent process - when there is a lot of activity. I am able to resume >> signal processing by putting the whole process to sleep and waking it back >> up (cntrl+z fg)... This behavior seems odd and I'm wondering if by off >> chance anyone has >> 1. any suggestions about this queuing system design, e.g. the use of >> signals to communicate to a child process vs using a pipe? >> > > > It's a little early in the morning for me to comment on the rest yet, but I > will say that POSIX signals are only guaranteed to be delivered at all, > there is no guarantee on *when* they will be delivered. They're not a > reliably means of realtime communication. >
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