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/*!
\page unix-signals.html
\title Calling Qt Functions From Unix Signal Handlers
\brief You can't. But don't despair, there is a way...
\ingroup platform-specific
\ingroup best-practices
You \e can't call Qt functions from Unix signal handlers. The
standard POSIX rule applies: You can only call async-signal-safe
functions from signal handlers. See \l
{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/xsh_chap02_04.html#tag_02_04_01}
{Signal Actions} for the complete list of functions you can call
from Unix signal handlers.
But don't despair, there is a way to use Unix signal handlers with
Qt. The strategy is to have your Unix signal handler do something
that will eventually cause a Qt signal to be emitted, and then you
simply return from your Unix signal handler. Back in your Qt
program, that Qt signal gets emitted and then received by your Qt
slot function, where you can safely do whatever Qt stuff you
weren't allowed to do in the Unix signal handler.
One simple way to make this happen is to declare a socket pair in
your class for each Unix signal you want to handle. The socket
pairs are declared as static data members. You also create a
QSocketNotifier to monitor the \e read end of each socket pair,
declare your Unix signal handlers to be static class methods, and
declare a slot function corresponding to each of your Unix signal
handlers. In this example, we intend to handle both the SIGHUP and
SIGTERM signals. Note: You should read the socketpair(2) and the
sigaction(2) man pages before plowing through the following code
snippets.
\snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_unix-signal-handlers.qdoc 0
In the MyDaemon constructor, use the socketpair(2) function to
initialize each file descriptor pair, and then create the
QSocketNotifier to monitor the \e read end of each pair. The
activated() signal of each QSocketNotifier is connected to the
appropriate slot function, which effectively converts the Unix
signal to the QSocketNotifier::activated() signal.
\snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_unix-signal-handlers.qdoc 1
Somewhere else in your startup code, you install your Unix signal
handlers with sigaction(2).
\snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_unix-signal-handlers.qdoc 2
In your Unix signal handlers, you write a byte to the \e write end
of a socket pair and return. This will cause the corresponding
QSocketNotifier to emit its activated() signal, which will in turn
cause the appropriate Qt slott function to run.
\snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_unix-signal-handlers.qdoc 3
In the slot functions connected to the
QSocketNotifier::activated() signals, you \e read the byte. Now
you are safely back in Qt with your signal, and you can do all the
Qt stuff you weren'tr allowed to do in the Unix signal handler.
\snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_unix-signal-handlers.qdoc 4
*/
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