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Top Forums Programming Nanosleep in signal call Post 302963489 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 31st of December 2015 10:05:18 AM
Old 12-31-2015
I am guessing you do not want signal handling at all, other than cleaning up open files and buffers when your app gets a SIGTERM, for example.

Why? read.

This says you are designing an app that has an associated process that is doing reads.
Consider another standard IPC model instead. They are a much better choice if you must do reads in one process.

Overview:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/tlk/ipc/ipc.html

Pipes are great, they are very like playing with files.
The GNU C Library: Creating a Pipe


Shared memory among processes is also a great feature. You can atomically set a variable in shared memory, then execute a read into a buffer there.
Use semaphores for traffic control. This one is straightforward to get right.
shm_overview(7) - Linux manual page

Overall, consider getting a copy of 3rd Edition of Stevens & Rago 'Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment'. Michael Kerrisk has done the same thing purely for Linux - 'The LINUX Programming Interface'

Both of these have great examples of all of IPC, and explain how not to shoot yourself in the foot. Like you seemed to want to do. They fully cover signals as well, if you cannot change your system design, and have to continue into the Dark Side.

Have a good New Year!

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 12-31-2015 at 11:11 AM..
 

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IPC(2)							     Linux Programmer's Manual							    IPC(2)

NAME
ipc - System V IPC system calls SYNOPSIS
int ipc(unsigned int call, int first, int second, int third, void *ptr, long fifth); DESCRIPTION
ipc() is a common kernel entry point for the System V IPC calls for messages, semaphores, and shared memory. call determines which IPC function to invoke; the other arguments are passed through to the appropriate call. User programs should call the appropriate functions by their usual names. Only standard library implementors and kernel hackers need to know about ipc(). CONFORMING TO
ipc() is Linux-specific, and should not be used in programs intended to be portable. NOTES
On a few architectures, for example ia64, there is no ipc() system call; instead msgctl(2), semctl(2), shmctl(2), and so on really are implemented as separate system calls. SEE ALSO
msgctl(2), msgget(2), msgrcv(2), msgsnd(2), semctl(2), semget(2), semop(2), semtimedop(2), shmat(2), shmctl(2), shmdt(2), shmget(2) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2007-06-28 IPC(2)
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