On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 05:03:28PM -0500, Signal 11 wrote:
> > crazy to do something like this?  Note that I've already thought out
> > all the semantics and signaling necessary for this.
> 
> Be careful with signals, they aren't reliable. Your program
> might generate 5 SIGUSR1 signals and only one or two might
> be caught by the handler if you aren't careful. :(

I didn't mean UNIX signals - I meant telling the process at the other
end of the sort of connection that I described that there was data to
be read from the circular data.  And yes, I know that UNIX signals are
unreliable.

-- 
Travis Bemann
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