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Re: [Linux] Global named interprocess mutex

From nobody@example.org (Scott)
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: [Linux] Global named interprocess mutex
Date 2019-11-10 17:54 +0000
Organization XMission http://xmission.com/
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On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 06:12:34 -0800 (PST), Frederick Gotham
<cauldwell.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:

>This interprocess mutex is actually quite clean and works quite well, but I=
>'m able to break everything by doing this:
>If I get one of the processes to perform a time-consuming operation (e.g. 6=
> seconds), and if I hit Ctrl + C on this process when it's doing this, then=
> it kills the process. . . and my global mutex remains locked! So now nobod=
>y can use the hardware!

Sorry if I'm belaboring the obvious, but are you attempting to catch
the interrupt signal so that you can end the process cleanly?

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[Linux] Global named interprocess mutex Frederick Gotham <cauldwell.thomas@gmail.com> - 2019-11-10 06:12 -0800
  Re: [Linux] Global named interprocess mutex Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-11-10 17:51 +0000
    Re: [Linux] Global named interprocess mutex gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-11-10 21:16 +0000
      Re: [Linux] Global named interprocess mutex Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2019-11-10 23:00 +0100
  Re: [Linux] Global named interprocess mutex nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-11-10 17:54 +0000
  Re: [Linux] Global named interprocess mutex "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2019-11-10 15:03 -0800

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