sigwait in multi-threaded application

[KV Pavuram <kvpavuram@yahoo.co.in>]

Hi,

Are there any caveats of sigwait (on RT signals) in
multithreaded application?

As suggested in the man page, i call 

# define SIG35 35
# define SIG36 36

sigaddset (&set, SIG36) ;
pthread_sigmask (SIG_BLOCK, &set, NULL);

at the beginning of the program (in main) before I
create any threads.

Then i register a signal handler for SIG35. The signal
handler i call sigwait for SIG36 as

    sigaddset (&set, SIG36) ; 
    pthread_sigmask (SIG_BLOCK, &set, NULL) ;      
    sigwait (&set, &signum) ; 
    if (signum == SIG_TASKRESUME)
    {
        printf ("Task is received SIG36\n") ;
    }

Is this usage right? I see that some times if run
strace on the particular thread that is currently in
sigwait and then kill strace with Ctrl+C, the threads
starts hogging CPU? Why should Ctrl+C wake up sigwait
on SIG36??

Am I missing something?  (Linux 9, 2.4 kernel)

Regards,
Pav.



		
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