Re: our :shared $foo / iThreads

[Jens-Uwe Mager]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 08:34:53PM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote:
> Dan Sugalski wrote:
> 
> > Really. So you do magic in there to make sure alarm() delivers signals to
> > the right thread?
> 
> 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.

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