PATCH: boehm-gc SIGINT handling (linux)

Tom Tromey tromey@cygnus.com
Wed Dec 8 15:50:00 GMT 1999


>>>>> "Bryce" == Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz> writes:

Bryce> Boehm-gc blocks all signals to threads waiting for a
Bryce> SIG_RESTART during a collection. This can result in a deadlock
Bryce> if Ctrl-C is pressed during a collection (some threads get left
Bryce> waiting for the SIG_RESTART when the thread doing the
Bryce> collection has gone).

I don't have time to look at this right now :-(

However, I noticed you CC'd Hans.  If he likes the patch, that's good
enough for me.

Tom


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