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Re: Interruptible wait_for_termination


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Interruptible wait_for_termination
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 22:36:27 -0800
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On 11/10/2012 07:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Aren't there gobs of programs out there who call waitpid
> without setting up a loop that checks for EINTR?

There are, but they typically have a race condition bug
unless they do something tricky with signals, which
Emacs no longer does and which I don't recommend.



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