Re: about usage of `sigaction'

[William Xu]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> William Xu <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> So all other things are blocked during accept()?
>
> Signals for the thread in question at least :(.
>
>> Maybe this is a problem of scheme accept?
>
> It's not a good thing, though fixing it might be tricky.
>
> Do you actually need to know immediately the child exits?  

Currently it just makes me feel uncomfortable when it doesn't work as
expected.. I hope someday it could get fixed.

> Perhaps it's enough to reap on the next connection.  If you need to
> know then you might keep a pipe open to each child, then `select' on
> them plus the listening port.  Whichever has some action (incoming
> connect or exited child) can show up.

Yes, that could be a workaround. Thanks.

-- 
William

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