ioslave terminating mechanism

[Waldo Bastian]

On Thursday 18 April 2002 01:44 pm, aleXXX wrote:
> Exactly my thoughts :-)
> But, after thinking a bit more about it, e.g. if the ioslave is in a
> lengthy get(), we won't get back to dispatchLoop() soon, so in these cases
> the SIGALARM would hit

It should do some checking in its get() method then. If it fails to do so it 
will be killed by SIGALARM.

C++ Exceptions where invented for exactly these kind of things btw, too bad 
they suck so badly.

Cheers,
Waldo
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