[Ecls-list] Revisiting locks and signals

[dherring at tentpost.com]

Two projects I couldn't remember earlier:
http://github.com/dgoncharov/libunixsignal
http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/


> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:54:33 -0400 (EDT)
> Daniel Herring <dherring at tentpost.com> wrote:
>
>> New APIs like signalfd are moving away from the random-interrupt model
>> of
>> signals towards a more I/O friendly model.  See e.g.
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/225714/
>
> This is interesting but also appears to be OS-specific...

There are also some portable, efficient event libraries that layer over
the native mechanisms.
http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html

- Daniel

P.S.  OT but related: http://libsigsegv.sourceforge.net/