Subj : Re: How to manage time-slicing in Pthreads programs? To : comp.programming.threads From : Joe Seigh Date : Mon Feb 21 2005 10:26 am On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:39:14 +0100, jd wrote: >> > 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. > That doesn't follow. -- Joe Seigh .