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Subject: Re: Desperately missing a working "pselect()" or similar...
To: alex@pennace.org (Alex Pennace)
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 00:13:39 +0100 (BST)
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> The select system call doesn't return EINTR when the signal is caught
> prior to entry into select.

Your friend there is siglongjmp/sigsetjmp - the same problem was true
with old versions of alarm that did

	alarm(num)
	pause()

on a heavily loaded box.

Using siglongjmp cures that
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