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Re: Signals problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Scott)
Thu Sep 26 20:20:08 1996
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:59:06 -0500
From: Randy Scott <scottr@belle.bork.com>
To: pthreads@MIT.EDU
In article <52d26u$968@belle.bork.com> you wrote:
: Why am I asking this? Because I am having a problem with signals, and
: from the postings I have reviewed in the mailing list archive it
: appears that I am not alone, but I am not sure if this problem has
: been solved yet. So I will describe what is happening to me, and
: hopfully someone can tell me if my problem has been solved, or give me
: some insight as to how to fix this.
IMHO, pthreads (under Linux especially, maybe other platforms as well) is
as good as worthless when it comes to signal handling. It could be that
I've been going about them in the wrong way, but I haven't been able
to get any kind of stable signal handling working under pthreads. As
a result, I have switched to linuxthreads. While this thread package
is indeed Linux specific, it has a standard POSIX threads interface so
any code you write therefore has a chance of working on other platforms
that support a POSIX thread library.
Just my $0.02. Chris, no offense. I would be glad to help in development
or testing. Personally, I would like to see a threads package that
works like Solaris threads (ie multiple lightweight processes handling
piles of user-mode threads).
Randy Scott <scottr@belle.bork.com>
