Re: OT: Windows (Was: Re: Open Source does not mean easily

Muttley@dastardlyhq.org wrote:

Unix signals should only be used to set flags that are then read later. Doing

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anything complicated in a signal handler is asking for trouble as you have
no idea where the program was when the signal occured and there can be all
sorts of re-entrant issues or even deadlocks if using mutexes.

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That is what I have learned, too, but I cannot remember the
source. Maybe one of Richard Stevens' UNIX books.
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I am no expert, but I guess if you need to do async programming
on UNIX/Linux userspace, your best is to use POSIX Threads.