Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!ig!agate!pasteur!ames!vsi1!daver!athsys!fred 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 Lines: 10 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? ------------------------ Fred Cox, reachable at: sun!athsys!fred