Subj : Re: NPTL and sigwait() problem under linux
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : loic-dev
Date : Fri Aug 19 2005 01:44 am

Hello Steve,

> >P.S. Now I install handlers for SIGSEGV and SIGFPE after signal_init(), in
> > the main thread, and they are working fine.
>
> Just be aware that SIGSEGV and SIGFPE, when generated by the
> implementation (as opposed to being sent with kill/pthread_kill) are
> generated synchronously, and thus *will* *only* get delivered to the
> thread that caused them.  You can't create a signal-handling thread
> to cope with those particular signals.

[snip]

Thanks Steve for your post. I wanted to warn Daniele on this. Now my
answer looks much shorter ;-)

Cheers,
Loic.

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