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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
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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