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From: wen-king@cit-vlsi.Caltech.Edu (Wen-King Su)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Wait, Select, and a SIGCHLD Race Condition
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Date: 12 Dec 87 15:59:15 GMT
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In article <496@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> rpd@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Richard Draves) writes:
<> on SIGCHLD interrupt, set time_ptr = &ZERO_TIMER;
>...
<> numfds = select(...,time_ptr);
>...
<>| Wen-King Su wen-king@vlsi.caltech.edu Caltech Corp of Cosmic Engineers |
>
the select procedure call but before the trap to the kernel, then the