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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!email!mbirgmei From: mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at (Martin BIRGMEIER) Subject: Re: FIFOs cause lockup Message-ID: <1993May27.070112.24373@email.tuwien.ac.at> Organization: Technical University of Vienna References: <C7DtDE.4A@rokkaku.atl.ga.us> <1993May24.064242.16966@email.tuwien.ac.at> <C7L3rs.206@rokkaku.atl.ga.us> Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 07:01:12 GMT Lines: 12 In article <C7L3rs.206@rokkaku.atl.ga.us> kml@rokkaku.atl.ga.us (Kevin Lahey) writes: [...] >Thanks! It worked great. I found that I needed to replace the PSOCK in >the tsleep calls with PSOCK | PCATCH, so that the tsleep was interruptable. >The software I was trying to get running needed to be able to get an >alarm to get out of the open(2) call. As both Chris Demetriou and Bruce Evans pointed out to me, PCATCH should indeed be added to the flags, which I already did on my own system. Works fine now. Martin