> We have code that uses an alarm() to routinely break ouf of a socket accept
> and then perform some processing (check a flag) and then loop back around
> to wait for a connection again. The code works fine on Solaris, HP-UX,,
> AIX, and other flavours but not on RedHat 6.0.
Ugly way to do it (non blocking connect and select() is cleaner)
> I noticed that by default, SIGALRM is ignored so I unblocked it with
> sigprocmask but we are still not getting the behaviour we require.
> Is there something I am missing here?
Are you using sigaction to force the signal to interrupt connect and not
be restartable ?
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