ioslave terminating mechanism

[aleXXX]

On Thursday 18 April 2002 23:10, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 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.

What should it check for, the "global" flag ?

Something like 

MySlave::get() {
...
while (somethingToSendLeft) {
   if (wasKilled())
      return;
   read(buf,x);
   data(buf);
   ...
};

?

Alex