Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch to protect terrasync SVN from ^C

[Frederic B. <fre...@fr...>]

Alex,

Terrasync doesn't stop itself if nothing comes from the socket. I am
going to make it global and close it in the handler.

-Fred

Le 28/02/2010 17:51, Alex Perry a écrit :
> Attached patch replaces the stream with a single direct call to
> write() inside the signal handler; someone Windows based might want to
> give it a look before committing.  I also removed references to std::
> which are they're superfluous after "using namespace" directive at the
> top.
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Alex Perry <ale...@ie...> wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Tim Moore <tim...@gm...> wrote:
>>     
>>> Whoops, I'm a bit late with my comments, but all the same...
>>>
>>> You can't safely use C++ stream functions in a signal handler.
>>>       
>> Drat, true.  A simple write() would be fine, given what I'm using it for.
>>
>>     
>>> Why does terrasync need to be protected from interruption like this? Does
>>> the SVN update really get corrupted if it is interrupted?
>>>       
>> Yep.  If we think the individual update could take a long time, we
>> could go to the extra effort and use the svn internal interruption
>> handlers.
>>
>>