posix signal handling
Brian J. Tarricone
bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon Dec 17 19:24:25 CET 2007
Hey guys,
This weekend I committed some new functionality to libxfce4util:
integration of POSIX signal handling with the glib main loop. I'm
already using it in xfdesktop and it seems to work fine. It's basically
the same thing I changed xfce-mcs-manager to do a while ago, and I think
Jasper might have copied that for the panel. xfwm4 should probably use
it as well; not sure if there are other of our apps that handle signals.
The header is here:
http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/libxfce4util/trunk/libxfce4util/xfce-posix-signal-handler.h
Source is in the corresponding .c file, of course.
Please let me know your thoughts on the API and implementation. One
thing I decided I didn't want to do was make a GObject proxy that has
signals, the main reason being that I may submit this for inclusion into
glib (not gobject).
Also, it lacks a "xfce_posix_signal_handler_ignore_signal()" function.
This is more due to laziness than anything else, since I think it's just
as easy (if not easier) to call signal(SIGFOO, SIG_IGN); (though that
breaks the abstraction). Not sure if I should bother to add this.
Any comments/suggestions?
-brian
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