Unix Programming - Re: Interrupting read() call by SIGALRM in multithreaded application

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Re: Interrupting read() call by SIGALRM in multithreaded application

Ulrich Hobelmann

2005-07-26, 5:57 pm

Rafal Krypa wrote:
> On 2005-07-26, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:
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> Thanks a lot for your response. But I don't wand to interrupt a socket call - I
> am trying to interrupt read() on character device (serial port).
> Do I still have to use select()?

I think you could block signals in the thread that reads the
socket, and have it unblocked in the read()ing thread.

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