Rhythmic Fistman wrote: >> From: skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 09:57 -0800, Erick Tryzelaar wrote: >> >> >>> signals are quite tricky to deal with when you got garbage collection :) >>> I found a mailing about how ocaml does it: >>> > > > [...] > > >> The data buffer will be finite of course .. if you get >> too many signals too fast you're screwed. This is one >> case where you probably HAVE to use global storage >> (absolute addressing) .. since the signal has no >> other context. >> > > You can use sigwait to serialise/queue [some] incoming signals into > a nice waitable form, but to make it work reliably you need to set > the signal masks before any threads are spawned, i.e. before the felix > driver gets started. Yet another @#%#$@ API that just HAS to be run first. > > Signals are shit, Jonathan, and in the presence of multiple threads they're > even shitter - what exactly are you trying to do? > >
I'm trying to wrap ncurses and want to deal with SIGWINCH, and I'd want to handle SIGINT too of course, to tidy up. Jonathan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
