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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: Help with select(2) and SIGCHLD together
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 17:50:41 EDT
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Whoaaaaaaaa!  *thud*  (sound of me falling off my chair)

I see you've run into the same problem I ran into on the Sun, doing
window select calls and catching SIGWINCH.  I didn't think anyone else
would ever notice and/or worry about this one.

As far as I can tell there is no way to avoid the race.  I hesitate to
suggest it, but it seems that select needs a sixth argument, namely a
signal mask. . . .

In my case, I ignored the race; the consequences of missing the event
were that an Emacs window might not update properly until you typed
another character (not terribly drastic), and the chances were pretty
slim.
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251)
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