Re: [Sigsafe-devel] Various issues

[Scott L. <sl...@sl...>]

On May 10, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Scott Lamb <sl...@sl...> writes:
>> You're right on all points. I've made the fixes to the head revision
>> in Subversion. When I get a chance to test everywhere, I'll make a
>> new release.
>
> Thank you! I was worried that the project is dead :-)

It's not dead but not as lively as I'd like. If any open source  
project of mine becomes hugely popular, I fear it won't be one  
designed to help Unix developers avoid subtle race conditions.

The documentation's been a lot more successful than the code. I've  
occasionally noticed in my referrer logs people talking about it in  
languages I don't understand. (It was weird to see a bunch of _my_  
code examples floating in a sea of Japanese text.) I've been meaning  
to bulk it out more. Probably the easiest thing to do would be just  
to introduce more asynchronous IO people to the self-pipe trick. It  
makes a lot of sense there.

On the other hand, using sigsafe's code is much easier if you are  
doing synchronous operations (or you are writing a library which can  
be used for either). Reliable thread cancellation is probably the  
best example, especially considering that POSIX thread cancellation  
really doesn't work.

Regards,
Scott

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Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/>