Subj : Re: How to manage time-slicing in Pthreads programs? To : comp.programming.threads From : Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk Date : Sun Feb 20 2005 03:51 pm "Joe Seigh" writes: >>> Unix signals are brain damaged beyond redemption. >> >> I wonder how would you have designed them differently. >> > I wouldn't have had them in the first place. How would you design a mechanism which allows the user to press ^C to abort a program? Or set up a timer for a userspace thread scheduler? I'm not saying that I like signals, but I don't know how an alternative could look like. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/ .