[TUHS] signals and blocked in I/O

[Dan Cross]

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> Does anyone remember the reason that processes blocked in I/O don't catch
> signals?  When did that become a thing, was that part of the original
> design or did that happen in BSD?
>
> I'm asking because I'm banging on FreeBSD and I can wedge it hard, to
> the point that it won't recover, by just beating on tons of memory.


My understanding was that signal delivery only happens when the process is
*running* in the kernel. If the process is sleeping on IO then it's not
running, so the signal isn't delivered.

        - Dan C.
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