Re: pre7 still has broken timeouts in select() and poll()
Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:09:45 +0000
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:48:25PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Netscape keeps hanging. strace reveals one of two behaviours when it's
> hung:
[...]
> 2. Repeatedly SIGALRM is sent to the process, between repeated
> oldselect() calls that are interrupted. The signals come at high
> speed, and there is no syscall starting a new alarm. So the interval
> timer probably got screwed somewhere.
I tell a lie. Actually it's write() calls (for 1 byte) that are being
repeatedly interrupted.
-- Jamie
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