freebsd-dev/usr.sbin/ppp/sig.h
brian f414cf52f6 Maintain a `necessary' marker to indicate that we *probably*
need to process a signal (usually a SIGALRM).  Check to see
if we need to process a signal both before *and* after calling
select() as older (pre-2.0) versions of ppp used to.

This handles the possibility that ppp may block at some
point (maybe due to an open() of a misconfigured device).
Previously, we'd potentially lock up in select().

The `necessary' marker reduces the increased signal checking
overhead so that at full speed with no compression transferring
an 83Mb file via a ``!ppp -direct'' device, we get a 1%
throughput gain.
1999-03-30 00:44:57 +00:00

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/*-
* Copyright (c) 1997 Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
* All rights reserved.
*
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* $Id: sig.h,v 1.12 1998/05/21 21:48:23 brian Exp $
*/
typedef void (*sig_type)(int);
/* Call this instead of signal() */
extern sig_type sig_signal(int, sig_type);
/* Call this when you want things to *actually* happen */
extern int sig_Handle(void);