Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Heusden, Folkert van" <> | Subject | RE: A signal fairy tale - a little comphist | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:57:23 +0200 |
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[...] > A signal number cannot be opened more than once concurrently; > sigopen() thus provides a way to avoid signal usage clashes > in large programs. YOU> Signals are a pretty dopey API anyway -
Exactly. When signals were made up, signalhandlers were supposed to not so much more then a last cry and then exit the application. sigHUP to re-read the config was not supposed to happen.
YOU> so instead of trying to patch YOU> them up, why not think of something better for AIO?
Yeah, a select() on excepfds.
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