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RE: Cancelling a Blocking network call
- To: "'Jonathan Larmour'" <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Cancelling a Blocking network call
- From: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at theone dot dnsalias dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:31:08 -0600
- Cc: "'Gary Thomas'" <gthomas at redhat dot com>,"'eCos Discussion'" <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
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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