Interruptible calculations

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2009-04-15 18:06:07 +0800, Jafet wrote:
> I suppose I will just spawn a subprocess and kill it. However it would
> be nice to know the workable alternatives, if any.

I wonder if trapping the signal and using longjmp could be done.
But warning:

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/SIG32-C.+Do+not+call+longjmp()+from+inside+a+signal+handler

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