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Hands-On System Programming with Linux
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Hands-On System Programming with Linux

by Kaiwan N. Billimoria, Tigran Aivazian
October 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
794 pages
19h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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Case 2 : SA_NODEFER bit set

Now let's reconsider the very same scenario, only this time we use the SA_NODEFER signal flag. So, when the first instance of signal n arrives, our process jumps into the signal-handling code (which will take 55 ms to complete). As before, the second signal will arrive just 10 ms into the signal-handling code, but hang on, this time it is not masked; it is not deferred. Thus, we will reenter the signal handler function immediately. Then, 20 ms later (after the signal handler was first entered by signal n instance #1), the third signal instance arrives. Again, we will reenter the signal handler function. Yes, this will happen five times.

Figure 4 shows us this scenario:

Figure 4: SA_NODEFER bit set: no queue; all ...
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