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Re: console-client signal handling


From: Marco Gerards
Subject: Re: console-client signal handling
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:53:48 +0200
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> It's also questionable if you really want another thread to wait on a
> condition all the time.  OTOH, there probably is no suitable other
> thread.  So, if we need another thread, then that's ok.  But block
> signals for all other threads, and have that thread also handle the
> signals you want to catch.  That's best because then memory is already
> synchronized.  Having that thread sleep most of the time and check for the
Thinking of it, this must have caused the problems I had with
console_exit.  It is called from the pc_kbd driver's thread.
I will fix this as well as soon as someone can explain me how to block
signals for other threads...
Thanks,
Marco





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