[plug] Scheduling Problems

[Mike Holland]

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Leon Brooks wrote:

> Brad Campbell wrote:
> > I can't do a blocking read, in case I have a device go down.
> 
> Yes you can! You're not on a single-user machine. Have a watchdog
> thread/process tap the main thread/process on the shoulder if it dies.

Could you also try setitimer() to interrupt a blocking read?

Brad - maybe just to be sure, use strace to check pascal isnt doing any
unexpected syscalls.


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