Summary - lost of SIGIO signal in SunOS4.1/4.0.3

ConnorsPA connors at druco.ATT.COM
Tue Jun 4 04:48:22 AEST 1991


In article <27089 at adm.brl.mil>, TAYBENGH%NUSDISCS.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu (THE AGEIS) writes:
> 
>         The answer of my question is:
>         Although the Sun DOES provide reliable signal, it does NOT mean
> a signal counter is kept. If there are 2 instances of a same signal say SIGIO
> are asserted before the first one can be serviced, only one of them will be
> delivered.

I know nothing about the various Sun OSs. However, UNIX System V Release 4
does provide both reliable signals *and* the capability of queueing them.
As an example, it can be arranged that a parent process receive an
individual signal when *each* of its child processes exits. The
individual signals *are* queued. SIGIO can also be queued in this way.

For those with manuals, check out the SA_SIGINFO parameter
to sigaction(2); and siginfo(5).

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