Signal handling in tight loops

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:06:45PM +1200, Edmund Horner wrote:
>Hello again.
>
>>From my DJGPP days I remember that the alarm signal could not be raised
>in very tight loops, because signals were only checked when memory was
>accessed.  Does this apply to cygwin, by any chance?
>
>The reason I'm asking is that I have a module in my program which I
>can't completely trust, and I'd like to terminate it after 2 minutes if
>it hasn't returned by then.  I'm hoping to use alarm() for this.
>
>Feasible?

Why don't you write a simple test case?

This technique should be much more useful than inviting random opinions from
a mailing list and it should be MUCH faster.

cgf

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