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

In article <vljiml$296n5$1@dont-email.me>,  <Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote:

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 15:35:44 -0000 (UTC)
cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wibbled:

In article <vljgbg$28o6f$1@dont-email.me>,  <Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org> wrote:

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I have to ask at this point: have you ever written a concurrent
program under Unix?  One that used signals?  For that matter,
have you ever written a program that used `fork()` and caught a
`SIGCHLD`?

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Is that supposed to be a serious question?

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Yes.
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The only thing that should ever be done in a child exit handler is a wait*()
or set a flag.

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I think perhaps you should try to write some complex programs in
the Unix environment before making such categorial statement.

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Don't be patronising.

Wow, that's rich coming from you, my guy.

I've probably written more unix software in 30 years
than you've had hot dinners including a fully featured telnetd and numerous
other servers for work and play. And in the places I've worked which included
finance/banking, aerospace and government,

"For play" implies things that could be, or are, open source.
So post a link to code, then.

Bluntly, I don't believe that any of this is true.  Your posts
here show a distinct lack of relevant experience and knowledge.

the advice was almost always NOT to
use signals in the first place unless there was no choice - eg SIGCHLD - but if
you did then do very little in the handler and nothing that could cause any
re-entrancy issues.

Earlier you said you should _only_ set a flag in a signal
handler.  Then you moved the goal posts to say that you could
call `wait` (presumably after I posted that example).  How
you're just saying that you should do "very little that could
cause any re-entrancy issues", which is something I more or
less said a few posts ago, but again moving those pesky goal
posts when it suits you.

So which is it?

I suspect its you who needs a bit more practice at writing large multi process
and multi threaded applications.

*shrug* Feel free to look up some things that I've written, if
you like.  Perhaps you'll learn something.

- Dan C.