Re: Win32 signals code, take two

From: Claudio Natoli <claudio(dot)natoli(at)memetrics(dot)com>
To: 'Andrew Dunstan' <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers-win32 <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Win32 signals code, take two
Date: 2004-01-20 12:42:37
Message-ID: A02DEC4D1073D611BAE8525405FCCE2B55F282@harris.memetrics.local
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> Stevens APUE (s. 10.8) says:
>
> "What happens if a blocked signal is generated more than once before
> the process unblocks the signal? POSIX.1 allows the system to deliver
> the signal once or more than once. If the system delivers the signal
> more than once, we say the signals are queued. Most Unix systems,
> however, do not queue signals. Instead the Unix kernel just
> delivers the signal once."

Thanks Andrew, I've only ever seen it the other way... guess it won't matter
then.

Cheers,
Claudio

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