From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3168.199.98.17.56.1063847853.squirrel@wish> In-Reply-To: <20030918010513.17140.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> References: <20030918010513.17140.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] name resolution From: "Joel Salomon" To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:17:33 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3c03277e-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > | in Linux, probably because of glibc, a web browser (well, only tested > | with Lynx) doing a domain-name lookup cannot be interrupted by the > | "stop button" (more precisely, the "z" key in Lynx). > > Nah, if the program isn't event driven, a signal still ought to be able > to interrupt the syscall. Lynx probably just doesn't bother. > Pressing "z" sends a signal? Lynx is pretty good with "z" during other operations - I'd guess that under *n!x socket connection is harder to mulithread (?) - I got the same result under ScumOS. > | I'm wondering if Plan 9 has the same restriction/property. The Plan 9 browser has no bugs. ☺ > Plan 9 has a much better bug: if a fileserver doesn't answer 9p messages, > a communicating process blocked in read/write never gets unblocked and > can't be killed with a signal. Sigh. Coool!!! --Joel