On CLI applications, they are almost mandatory to use!
If you do not catch them, the OS can kill your process "brutally" before you can clean things up…



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De : Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]>
Envoyé : 23 juillet 2021 22:29:09 GMT+02:00
À : std-proposals_at_[hidden], Phil Bouchard <boost_at_[hidden]>
Cc : Thiago Macieira <thiago_at_[hidden]>
Objet : Re: [std-proposals] Signals & Slots

On Friday, 23 July 2021 13:22:14 PDT Phil Bouchard wrote:
> You could mimic and abstract to a certain point the POSIX signals as well
> (which are pretty messy in a multithreaded environment when you apply some
> masks in some specific thread).

Let POSIX / Unix signals die a silent death. Don't use it for any new
application or any new use-case.