On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > > According to Maurice J. Bach in "Design of the Unix Operating System": `The > kernel checks for receipt of a signal when a process is about to return > from kernel mode to user mode and when it enters or leaves the sleep state > at a suitably low scheduling priority. The kernel handles signals only > when a process returns from kernel mode to user mode. Thus, a signal does > not have an instant effect on a process running in kernel mode.' (p. 201)
Oops, yeah this is a very likely cause of his problem, however I don't think it's good kernel behaviour to have any kind of kernel call that can never return in some cases. Everything should have a timeout of some sorts, even if it is hours. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .