From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-04-12T05:05:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13607] Re: signal handling - trap is in non-interrupt context, right?


On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Colin Steele wrote:
> When one hands a proc to trap, and the specified signal is caught,
> does the proc run in interrupt context (in the UNIX sense)?
> Ie., is it ok to do Ruby stuff in that trap proc which will result in
> calls to non-rentrant UNIX functions?

There are non-reentrant UNIX functions?

I thought one of the key design principles of UNIX was that when an
interrupt occurs during a system call, either the system call is completed
first, or it is aborted, setting the EINTR error condition.

Correct me if I'm wrong...

matju