[erlang-questions] Signal handling (TERM, INT etc)

[Johnny Billquist]

Tony Finch wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Claes Wikström wrote:
>> Only possible solution I see is to
>>
>> 1. Have a socket setup from the driver to the beam (over loopback)
>> 2. in the sighandler write some data on the socket.
> 
> Some of my friends recommend this technique for C programs too, so that it
> becomes possible to select() for signals in the same way as other events.

Why not check for EINTR as the possible reason for -1 as returned from 
select()?
Even if you have a signal handler, the select() will return -1 when a 
signal occurs.

	Johnny