From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-09-28T12:04:11+09:00
Subject: Re: safety of timeout()

Hi,

In message "Re: safety of timeout()"
    on Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:41:57 +0900, leon breedt <bitserf@gmail.com> writes:

|like when a signal is received from OS while inside blocking code
|wrapped by timeout().

Signal is received immediately (at the latest safe point), and is
delivered to the main thread.

|how does the scope of trap() work for these situations? does trap()
|work at the level of the real process? or current virtual thread?

As stated above, trap works in the main thread.

							matz.