Re: [linux-audio-dev] laaga implementation news bite

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] laaga implementation news bite
From: Abramo Bagnara (abramo_AT_alsa-project.org)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 21:39:07 EEST

Paul Davis wrote:
>
>
> >> >Note also that signals may have some non atomicity troubles.
> >>
> >> such as?
> >
> >Go to sleep *after* signal has been received (same problems that's faced
> >with pthread_cond_wait semantic).
>
> Nope. sigblock/sigsuspend/sigpending take care of that.
>
> As I said to Richard, I don't really care about the internal
> implementation that much as long as it works. kill(2) just seemed to
> me much more amenable to the kind of system we need. i don't think
> that it *can't* be done with writing to an fd, but i think its a lot
> more work.

I suppose next time it's better you specify "this is an implementation
detail I think it's not important to define now".

It would save some traffic.

Abramo "sweating hot flu" Bagnara 

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It sounds good!

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