Subj : Re: How to manage time-slicing in Pthreads programs?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : jd
Date : Mon Feb 21 2005 03:39 pm

> > What does it use for ^C and timers? How is the timer action executed?
>
> Most GUI's use event queues.  Most of the synchonization api on windows,
> unix, and java  has timeout options.

I don't thing that polling an event queue to find out if there was SIGSEGV
is a very bright idea.

JD

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