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From: fred@athsys.uucp (Fred Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: SysV Signals and System Calls
Keywords: System V, Signals, System Calls
Message-ID: <149@poseidon.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 00:25:52 GMT
Reply-To: fred%athsys.uucp@sun.com (Fred Cox)
Organization: Athena Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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We have a large program initially written on suns, which we now need
to port to various System V machines.  The problem that we are coming
up with is that in BSD 4.2 systems, systems calls are not disturbed
by signals, while System V system calls return an error.  We need signals
for timer events.  What do people do in those cases where they are
using packages, like X Windows, which wait in system calls (read) while
signals may be occurring?

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Fred Cox, reachable at: sun!athsys!fred