On Monday, 26 July 2021 03:36:48 PDT Antoine Viallon via Std-Proposals wrote:
> 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…

Ok, so don't use them for new cases. For existing cases like catching a SIGINT
or SIGHUP, that's fine. You also can't avoid handling SIGCHLD if you have
child processes, unless you require Linux 5.4 or later.

The problem is that the POSIX / Unix signals are extremely hard to use in a
library. It's impossible to install one thread-safely and it's impossible to
remove one that you installed, at all. They can only be used by the
application -- any library using them (aside from SIGCHLD) must be doing it on
behalf of the application. That's the case of SIGINT that terminates the
application, SIGHUP that tells the application to reload its configuration, or
SIGTERM to exit cleanly.

Therefore, please don't invent new use-cases for them.

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