Keep in mind also that some signal handlers like SIGSEGV needs to be
very simple. There are many restrictions on the calls you can make in
these handlers. So I don't know if you'll be able to call a series of
slots for certain signals.

On 7/27/21 11:23 AM, Phil Bouchard via Std-Proposals wrote:
>
> Yeah if we don't abstract POSIX signals, people will come up with a
> million different messy alternatives. The costs / benefits are there I
> think and it's trivial to implement anyways.
>
> On 7/27/21 5:37 AM, Antoine Viallon via Std-Proposals wrote:
>> No, but this is really interesting.
>> I needed a clean way to handle signals.
>>
>> And, for reference, new code bases don't have signal handling code.
>> And I really think POSIX signal handling helpers in the STL would
>> make everybody's life easier.
>>
>> Antoine Viallon
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *De :* Edward Catmur via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]>
>> *Envoyé :* 26 juillet 2021 22:44:35 GMT+02:00
>> *À :* std-proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]>
>> *Cc :* Edward Catmur <ecatmur_at_[hidden]>
>> *Objet :* Re: [std-proposals] Signals & Slots
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Jul 2021, 21:32 Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals,
>> <std-proposals_at_[hidden]
>> <mailto:std-proposals_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>>
>> On Monday, 26 July 2021 12:54:07 PDT Phil Bouchard wrote:
>> > ... or to create some "process singleton" already emitting
>> these converted
>> > signals. On 7/26/21 3:51 PM, Phil Bouchard via Std-Proposals wrote:
>> > One thing that could be done though is to provide a static
>> conversion
>> > function called explicitly that will convert these POSIX
>> signals into the
>> > new safer signal types. Just an idea...
>>
>> That is what I call "new use-cases".
>>
>> No, thanks. Whoever needs to deal with POSIX / Unix signals
>> already has the
>> code. I don't really care to make their lives easier.
>>
>>
>> Hopefully everyone is aware of asio signal_set?
>> https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_76_0/doc/html/boost_asio/overview/signals.html
>> <https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_76_0/doc/html/boost_asio/overview/signals.html>
>>
>>
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