Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > We have code that uses an alarm() to routinely break ouf of a socket accept
> > and then perform some processing (check a flag) and then loop back around
> > to wait for a connection again. The code works fine on Solaris, HP-UX,,
> > AIX, and other flavours but not on RedHat 6.0.
>
> Ugly way to do it (non blocking connect and select() is cleaner)
>
> > I noticed that by default, SIGALRM is ignored so I unblocked it with
> > sigprocmask but we are still not getting the behaviour we require.
> > Is there something I am missing here?
>
> Are you using sigaction to force the signal to interrupt connect and not
> be restartable ?
In a similar case I noticed that SA_RESTART is ignored for select().
IMO a very strange behaviour! Is the xview clock binary really the
only reason???
Ciao, ET.
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