Re: [PATCH] Fix blocking read timeouts at a small probability

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/10/21 11:59 AM, Koichi Murase wrote:
> 2021年2月10日(水) 23:40 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>:
> > On 2/10/21 10:21 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > > Thanks for the analysis and patch. I'll take a look. At first glance, I
> > > would like to find a simpler way to do it.
>
> Thank you. Yes, if there is a simpler but still robust and reliable
> way to do it, that would be nice. 

There is, in fact, a simpler way for this case. Blocking SIGCHLD around the
calls to zread and its siblings fixes the problem. It might not be enough
of a general solution for you, though.

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