Subj : Re: sigwait() is not catching SIGUSR1 signal
To   : comp.programming.threads,comp.unix.programmer
From : =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Nils_O=2E_Sel=E5sdal=22?=
Date : Fri Mar 11 2005 10:32 am

Neelakantan wrote:
> Hi,
>       
>      i have a problem with sigwait() in a multithreaded program. 
> 
>      In this program some thread will be generating the signal SIGUSR1 at 
>      some time(asynchronously) and there is a dedicated thread for handling 
>      the asynchronous(SIGUSR1 in my case) signals.
>  
>      The sinal handling thread uses sigwait() to catch the signal, however 
>      the signal is not caught by the sigwait() function. I have blocked the 
>      signal SIGUSR1 before the threads are created aswell before the sigwait() 
>      is called.
You have no way to determin wether a given thread catches/receives the
signal. Probably some other thread received it.

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