#: 9596 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    22-Feb-91  18:22:51
Sb: #9588-#Egads! Can't signal!
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: Mark Wuest 74030,332 (X)

Mark -

Hmmm. You're right... even nice drivers only return from the midst of I/O if
the process has been Condemned by a deadly signal.

In most cases, you want it that way, of course.

One workaround is to fork off a tiny process to do the writes... communicating
via a data module buffer, for instance.  The main process can deal with the
non-deadly signals.

In effect, you have to implement asynchronous I/O operations yourself. Hope
this gives some ideas. ? - kev

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