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Re: Interruptible wait_for_termination


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Interruptible wait_for_termination
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:28:33 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Maybe it does, but when I considered this possibility, it sounded
> incredible to me that every keystroke would normally interrupt a call
> to waitpid.  Aren't there gobs of programs out there who call waitpid
> without setting up a loop that checks for EINTR?

Those gobs of programs don't enable SIGIO.

Andreas.

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