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Article #8409lost of SIGIO in SunOS4.1/4.0.3
From: THE AGEIS
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 14:17
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1991 14:17
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Hi netlander,
I am writing some network applications using socket & shared memory.
I used SIGIO to notify the receiver when there is data available in the
shared memory. SIGIO is needed here coz the receiver is polling the socket
using select(2). So I need SIGIO to purposely interrupt the select(2) call.
This SIGIO signal is sent by the sender using kill(2). However, I
found out SOME (not ALL - the last few sent) SIGIO signals are lost.
I thought SunOS4.1 provides reliable signal as described by Steven in his
Unix network Programming book. Is it true? At last, I suspected the signals
are lost probably because the sender was sending too many signals
too fast. As a result, I purposely slowed down the receiver using sleep(2).
The result turned out to be NO signal was lost. Could somebody please shed
some light on me whether SunOS4.1/4.0.3 DOES deliver the signal reliably?
Or did I missed sth? Anybody has the similar experience?
Thanks a lot.
- Beng Hang (email: taybengh@nusdiscs.bitnet)
Dept. Of Info. Syst. and Comp. Sc.
National University of Singapore
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