>>>>> "AB" == Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AB> I suggest you disable signals during the queue operations, take AB> out the lock, do the work, drop the lock then reenable signals. that is just how the kernel does interrupt handling. i did the same in an rtos eons ago. drivers could do queue stuff safely because they first disabled interrupts and reenabled them when done. sounds like a good plan and doable in user space with signal stuff. sigblock and sigsetmask seem to the the calls to use. dunno if they are on windows but i don't think they have proper signals at all. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
