[DGD] Changing connect() (network package)

[Felix A. Croes]

Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> > File system reads and writes are never interrupted.
>
> I was pretty sure that's only true if its LOCAL to the machine.  But
> what about a remotely mounted NFS?

Have you ever tried to interrupt a command running on a networked
filesystem that hung?


> And, say, a plain old read_file() from LPC?
>
> What about named pipes?

Named pipes and named sockets are among the exceptions.  SIGTERM
probably <should> interrupt a blocking read or write on a named pipe,
from DGD's point of view.

Regards,
Dworkin