Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Jens-Uwe Mager]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:14:20PM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote:
> Jens-Uwe Mager wrote:
> 
> > > Tut, tut - you forgot the 'No Threaded Program Must Ever Receive a A Signal
> > > Or Do Anything Else Naughty' rule, didn't you?  ;-)
> > 
> > Just because Sun's handling of alarm and setitimer in threaded
> > applications is broken beyond repair does not mean one can not use it on
> > other platforms that implement it properly.
> 
> 'Broken' as in 'Standards conforming' you mean?

Well, no other platform I had my hands on did not allow SIGALRM to be
blocked using pthread_sigmask. The behaviour Solaris has in this regard
is rather surprising, SIGARLM is different to all the other signals.

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