[1649] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Sockets und Signals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sun Jan 21 03:12:42 1996
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: gniibe@mri.co.jp (NIIBE Yutaka)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 04:14:22 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: schorn@str.daimler-benz.com, aschorn@ba-stuttgart.de,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199601150414.NAA07088@megatherium.mri.co.jp> from "NIIBE Yutaka" at Jan 15, 96 01:14:28 pm
> We've desided that getting rid of the code above, and using polling
> based approach with select(2) because it is portable and stable.
Its also far saner as things like stdio are not defined to be re-entrant -
that is using stuff like printf() in a signal handler is NOT safe.
Alan
