[Haskell-cafe] Foreign calls and periodic alarm signals

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Donn Cave <donn at avvanta.com> wrote:

> Sure are, though I don't know of any that have been identified so
> directly as yours.  I mean it sounds like you know where and how it's
> breaking.  Usually we just know something's dying on an interrupt and
> then think to try turning off the signal barrage.  It's interesting
> that you're getting a stall instead, due to an EINTR loop.
>

network is moderately infamous for (formerly?) using unsafe calls that
block....

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