Re: signal delivery

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd_at_daimi.au.dk)
Date: 01/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:38:21 +0100

Fong Tsui wrote:
>
> Does anybody know if there are multiple signals sent to the same
> process at the same time, does linux system guarantees all signals got
> delivered?

You can't have more than one pending signal of each type.

>
> I have a case that SIGPIPE and SIGTERM are sent to a process at the
> same time.

In that case you are guaranteed that both will get delivered.
(Assuming the first signal doesn't kill the process.)

> In the code, signals received are not certain, sometimes,
> either one, sometimes none but never got both.

Could be a race condition in your code. Please post a
minimal code example demonstrating the problem. 

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