Vladimir Zidar wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 11:49, Peter Wächtler wrote:
>
>
>>Just for *that*?
>>Do you write programs that reveal from sigsegv with sigsetjmp(3)?
>>
>
> No, I do not. But killing the process sounds much like abnormal
> programm termination. Can you feel the word 'abnormal' ? It is opposite
> of normal - be it simple as error condition on file descriptor.
>
A-prog: B-prog:
gets write lock
write some data
block on read lock
write some data
crashes
wants an error indication to repair data magically
So a crashing A-prog is OK for you, but B should get an indication.
Could catch a signal (SIGLOST?) returning -1 with errno=LOCKBROKEN
That would be possible with futex.
That is a case for writing data to a file - what about linked lists
in memory?
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