stop_interrupts not working (was: Re: I need help from a signal expert !)

Ben> Although you seem to have solved your problems through a different library, I think Ben> it would be worthwhile to step through unrequest_sigio() and see what functions are Ben> actually being called to affect the SIGIO signal. It's quite possible that Ben> something is indeed wrong here and needs fixing. If so, it's going to affect lots Ben> of places, and presumably all RedHat 6.0 users, and definitely needs to be fixed. Ben> If you can't figure out what's going on, at least put in a #### comment in the Ben> right place indicating that this function apparently doesn't do its job on RH 6.0, Ben> which could lead to a lot of strange results. Ben> ben I made some more tests. The function `emacs_sleep' appears not to be working for me. strace confirms that it is interrupted by a series of SIGIO signals. The debugger shows that the function `unrequest_sigio_on_device' is executed properly for a series of devices. Apparently a few are missing from the loop. I made the same test with xemacs -nw and the problem does not show up in that case. The guilty device(s) seem therefore to be X-related. I have no idea how to trace the SIGIOs back to the device(s) that generated them. I wonder, in the function `stop_interrupts', instead of calling unrequest_sigio which disables SIGIO on each device one by one, wouldn't it be faster and safer to simply disable SIGIO as a whole with a call to EMACS_BLOCK_SIGNAL (SIGIO) ? Oscar