Re: Never mind. Re: Signal left blocked after signal handler.

[Ingo Oeser]

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On Wednesday 26 November 2003 22:53, Albert Cahalan wrote:
[2.4 vs. 2.6 wrt. thread synchronous signals]
> How about making the process sleep in a killable state?
>
> This is as if the blocking was obeyed, but doesn't
> burn CPU time. Only a debugger should be able to
> tell the difference.

This has 2 problems:

1) Servers and PID files or servers and simple monitoring software.
2) Processes spawned from init, which will not respawn.

Regards


Ingo Oeser

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