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RE: Cancelling a Blocking network call


I suppose I could, couldn't I! :)  Is there any way of targetting a
specific thread only with the signal?

-----Original Message-----
From: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan
Larmour
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:34 PM
To: Trenton D. Adams
Cc: 'Gary Thomas'; 'eCos Discussion'
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Cancelling a Blocking network call


"Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
> 
> Let's say I call write () on a socket, and the other end of the
> connection hangs.  I might want to cancel that call.  If the write ()
> was done in another thread then yet another thread might be able to
> cancel the write () call.

You could include the fileio and posix packages and use signals.

Jifl
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