Ahh ok. Thanks for that, should've looked further into the spec. I assumed from other documentation I read that it could work.
So, now I'm a bit stuck on mixing the signal-based POSIX timers with mutexes. I will see about other synchronization mechanism. Best, Matias On Tue, Jan 12, 2021, at 21:19, Gregory Nutt wrote: > > > pthread_cond_wait() is not supposed to return if a signal is received: > > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696699/functions/pthread_cond_wait.html > > > > EINTR is not one of the valid return values from pthread_cond_wait(). > > This is the specific POSIX requirement that must be followed: "If a > signal is delivered to a thread waiting for a condition variable, upon > return from the signal handler the thread resumes waiting for the > condition variable as if it was not interrupted, or it shall return zero > due to spurious wakeup." > > "Spurious wakeups" are not handled. > >
