Re: [PATCH] fix non interruptable hang in svn client when connecting

Malcolm Rowe wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:39:01PM +0200, Yun Zheng Hu wrote:
>
>>If we dont set a timeout, the apr_connect function will use a blocking
>>socket connect but does not timeout if the user sent an interrupt (the
>>bug).
>>If we do set a timeout it will be a nonblocking connect, and resort to
>>apr_poll for proper timeout (see apr/network_io/unix/sockets.c).
>
>
> It sounds as though you're saying that the Mac OS X (blocking) version of
> connect() will hang the process and make it unkillable if you send it a
> SIGINT while it's waiting for a connection to complete.
>
> That seems pretty weird to me - is that really what's happening? (although
> I must admit that I don't understand how the process could block SIGKILL
> anyway).

A process can't block SIGKILL, however if the process is waiting on
a system call, the SIGKILL will not be delivered until the process
goes back to user space...

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