On 02/08/2006, at 5:40 PM, Carlo Sogono wrote:
I have a thread that requires sleep() to run for 5 mins, but I
would like this to return when I send a SIGTERM from the command
line. SIGTERM is caught by a process-wide handler. So far I have no
success. What I've tried so far...
1. Sending a SIGTERM to the process goes directly to the signal
handler and does not interrupt the threads.
1. Empty the signal mask of the thread using pthread_sigmask() and
still my sleep() inside a thread is not interrupted.
2. Send a SIGTERM to the thread using pthread_kill() inside my
handler...but my signal handler catches this again resulting in an
endless catching and pthread_kill() loop.
Any suggestions welcome. At the moment I might just sleep() every
few seconds and poll a particular variable but I would prefer
sleeping for 5 or more minutes.
Could you use something like pthread_cond_timedwait, and wake the
thread up from the signal handler?
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