Re: [OT] Interrupting select.

["Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es>]

"A month of sundays ago Laramie Leavitt wrote:"
> I think that this is slightly off-topic, but I figure that

I'll second this one (waaay off topic for the kernel list,
but ...)

> someone here knows the answer or where to point me to the
> answer.  Please respond privately so the entire list is not
> spamed by the response.

What IS the magic combination that makes select interruptible
by honest-to-goodness non-blocked signals!

> I am writing a threaded network daemon using a thread per
> connection model (I know, it is not the most effective, but

Me TOO.

> in shared memory.  I am looking for a way to send the thread a 
> signal or event to cause the thread to abort the read or select
> call when data is available.

Hear hear.

:-)

(followups to comp.os.linux.system or something like that)


Peter