Subj : Re: Improving read-write lock To : comp.programming.threads From : Alexander Terekhov Date : Thu Feb 24 2005 07:00 pm Joe Seigh wrote: [...] > If they're taking unix signals such as SIGSEGV and turning them into > exceptions. SIGSEGV is synchronous (unless you {pthread_}kill() some other thread with SIGSEGV), not asynchronous. regards, alexander. .