Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!steve
From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: driver close from exit can't catch signal?
Message-ID: <26789@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 90 19:21:57 GMT
Organization: South Coast Computing Services, Inc. - Houston, Tx
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Working on a driver recently I needed to sleep waiting for
a pending transaction completion interupt in the close routine.
Since the interupt wasn't guaranteed to come, I wanted to
be able to catch a signal.  I found that it works when the
user calls close directly but not when close is called from exit.

I thought the observation might be due to the signal causing
the close routine to be reentered, but a quick printf showed
that was not the case.  The wakeup just isn't happening.

So, I got rid of the sleep, cancelling the pending operation.
Lucky the situation was one where that was acceptable.

This is in a SysV thing.  Is this normal and expected?  I couldn't
find anything about it in the AT+T driver books.
-- 
Steve Nuchia	      South Coast Computing Services      (713) 964-2462
"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and _not_to_answer_them;
this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."
		Ursula LeGuin, _The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness_